CS99I Freshman Seminar:
Traveling the Information Highways

Tentative Topic Schedule

1. Friday 7 Jan 2000: Historical background, communication technology Notes.
2. Friday 14 Jan 2000: HTML, XML, class web page review, project definition. Notes.
3. Friday 21 Jan 2000: Search engines, recall, precision, overload. Notes.
4. Friday 28 Jan 2000: Digital libraries, information resources. Notes.
5. Friday 4 Feb 2000: Concepts: Data, Information, knowledge, decision-making, effectiveness of E-commerce. Notes.
6. Friday 11 Feb 2000: Business opportunities for information services an retail. Portals. Notes.
7. Friday 18 Feb 2000: : Bioinformatics. Business to business (B2B) on the Internet. Market pr4esence. Stock Market Valuations. Notes.
8. Friday 25 Feb 2000: Review of topics. Educational challenges, expected changes. Notes.
9. Friday 3 March 2000: Value of services, copyright, legal protection, payment mechanisms, dynamic pricing. Notes.
10. Friday 10 March 2000: Review, discussion of student topics. Notes.
11. Friday 17 March 2000: Security and protection of privacy. Party? Notes.