Date * Topic Reading** Quiz
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Mon 10/18 Lec Introduction - Course Goals/Methods
Wed 10/20 Lec Historical Development of the Computer IFE 1
Fri 10/22 Lec The Internet and E-mail IFE 3 Quiz
Mon 10/25 Lab E-mail, Telnet, FTP, News IFE 6, 2.1-2.3
Wed 10/27 Lec Knowledge Representation, Binary Encoding CE 1
Fri 10/29 Lec The World-Wide-Web IFE 4.1-4.3 Quiz
Mon 11/01 Lab Web Browsers and Searching the Internet IFE 5
Wed 11/03 Dis Computer Crime CE 2
Fri 11/05 Lec HTML and Web page design IFE 2.4-2.7 Quiz
Mon 11/08 Lab Web page construction I IFE 7
Wed 11/10 Dis Hacking and Viruses CE 4
Fri 11/12 Dis What Computers can and cannot do CE 5 Quiz
Mon 11/15 Lab Web page construction II IFE 4.4-4.6
Wed 11/17 Dis Invasion of Privacy CE 6
Fri 11/19 Dis Intellectual Property CE 3 Quiz
Mon 11/22 Dis Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems CE 7
Mon 11/29 Dis Computerizing the Workplace CE 8
Wed 12/01 Dis Virtual Reality and Cyberspace
Fri 12/03 Pre Term Project Presentations Quiz
Mon 12/06 Pre Term Project Presentations
Wed 12/08 Pre Donald Knuth Lecture at M.I.T.
Thu 12/16 Pre Term Project Presentations Term Projects Due
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*: Key to class meeting code
Lec: Lecture,
Lab: Laboratory,
Dis: Discussion,
Pre: Presentation
**: Key to Reading Assignments
IFE:
Introduction to the Internet for Engineers,
Greenlaw and Hepp, WCB/McGraw Hill, 1999.
CE:
Computer Ethics: Cautionary Tales and Ethical Dilemmas in Computing
Forester and Morrison, M.I.T. Press, 1994.