A good (video) lecture on SVD (singular value decomposition) that forms the basis for LSI (to be discussed next week)

To: Rao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Subject: A good (video) lecture on SVD (singular value decomposition) that forms the basis for LSI (to be discussed next week)
From: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:51:02 -0700
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You might want to check out this lecture on SVD from Gilbert Strang's course on linear algebra, if want to get a good background on the development

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/lecture-29-singular-value-decomposition/

rao