CS99I Freshman Seminar:
Traveling the Information Highways

Winter 2001/2002.
Updated 23 Jan 2002. Corrected wrong HREFs to Notes 00 -- 09. 14Feb2002 Corrected Wrong Years in meeting dates!

Tentative Topic Schedule

  1. Thursday 10 Jan 2002: Course review, approach, Historical background, communication technology . Notes 00.
  2. Friday 11 Jan 2002: ISPs, Backbones, Network Services Notes 01. updated 1Mar2000.
  3. Thursday 17 Jan 2002: Payment schemes: credit cards, micro-payments, Paypal.: Notes 02:
  4. Friday 18 Jan 2002: Intellectual Property, Business opportunities for information services Notes 03.
    Sunday, Jan 21 midnight: study lists due
  5. Thursday 24 Jan 2002: Start writing HTML! Education as a business. Notes 04.
  6. Friday 25 Jan 2002: Education as a business Notes 05. more on HTML.
    Saturday, Jan 27 midnight: last day to add courses to study lists due
    Sunday, Jan 28 An Evening of Dinner, Graphics, and a Movie!
  7. Thursday 31 Jan 2002: Notes 06 Review of planned projects, payment choices
  8. Friday 1 Feb 2002: Advertising, Digital publication, Libraries. Notes 07.
  9. Thursday 7 Feb 2002: Projects, need for XML. Mid-term evaluation. Notes 08..
  10. Friday 8 Feb 2002: Business to business (B2B) on the Internet. Market presence. Notes 09.
  11. Thursday 14 Feb 2002: Browsers, Search engines, Notes 10.
  12. Friday 15 Feb 2002: Browser performance: recall, precision, overload. Project review. Notes 11.
  13. Thursday 21 Feb 2002: Discussion of prior material. Report webpage setup. Stock Market Valuations. Dynamic pricing   Notes 12. Updated 1Mar2002..
  14. Friday 22 Feb 2002: Government and the Internet   Notes 13.
  15. Thursday 28 Feb 2002: Mediation Notes 14
  16. Friday 1 March 2002: Databases and Projecting into the Future. Notes 15.
  17. Thursday 7 March: Making CS99I project web pages Notes 16.
  18. Friday 9 March 2002: Security and protection of privacy Notes 17 .
  19. ( Thursday 14 March 2002: Deadweek -- no meeting )
  20. Friday 15 March 2002: Meet at the faculty club for class lunch Notes.
  21. Thursday 21 March 2002: finals week, available for questions.
  22. Friday 22 March 2002: Final reports due on web site. Party?