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Hoo's Watching - UVa Database Systems Project

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01 Aug 2020 • 1 min read
Hoo's Watching - UVa Database Systems Project

Hoo's Watching was a semester-long, group project in UVa's CS 4750: Databases course with Julian Cornejo Castro, Solimar Kwa and Jessica Heavner.

This project was one of two projects voted to be the "Most Practical" project in the Fall 2020 offering of the course.

You can visit the website here: http://cs.virginia.edu/~pwt5ca/main/.

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