CS99I Freshman Seminar:
Traveling the Information Highways

Tentative Topic Schedule

1. Tuesday 9 Jan 2001: Course review, approach, fixing of times, especially the alternatives for the Tuesday time. Notes.
2. Friday 12 Jan 2001: Historical background, communication technology Notes.
3. Tuesday 16 Jan 2001: Review and discussion of prior topic: Notes: Representation, IP.
   
4. Friday 19 Jan 2001: HTML, Notes.
   Sunday, Jan 21 midnight: study lists due
5. Tuesday 23 Jan 2001: **JBI conflict** No class -- learn about HTML!
6. Friday 26 Jan 2001: XML, class web page review, project definition. Notes.
7. Tuesday 30 Jan 2001: ISPs, Backbones, Network Services Updated Notes.
8. Friday 2 Feb 2001: Search engines, recall, precision, overload. Notes.
9. Tuesday 6 Feb 2001: Value of services, copyright, legal protection, payment mechanisms. Notes..
10. Friday 9 Feb 2001: Business to business (B2B) on the Internet. Market presence. Stock Market Valuations. Dynamic pricing. Notes.
11. Tuesday 13 Feb 2001: **NSF conflict ** Vistors: Jerrold Kaplan, Sergey Brin updated Notes.
12. Friday 16 Feb 2001: Business opportunities for information services an retail. Portals. Notes.
13. Tuesday 20 Feb 2001: Discussion of prior material. Report webpage setup. updated Notes.
14. Friday 23 Feb 2001: Concepts: Data, Information, knowledge, decision-making, effectiveness of E-commerce partially updated Notes.
15. Tuesday 27 Feb 2001: Payment schemes: credit cards, micro-payments, Paypal. Distribution of requests, sales etc (Zipf) updated Notes..
16. Friday 2 March 2001: Bioinformatics. Notes.
17. Tuesday 6 March: Visitor: Anand Rajaraman. Notes.
18. Friday 9 March 2001: Notes.
19. ( Tuesday 13 March 2001: Deadweek -- no meeting )
20. Friday 16 March 2001: Security and protection of privacy. Notes.
21. Tuesday 20 March 2001: finals week, available for questions.
22. Friday 23 March 2001: Final reports due on web site. Party?