Class Schedule for Information and Internet Technologies
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September 8:
Class Overview (Lecture
Notes)
How Computers Work (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Parsons and Oja: Chapter 5
Recommended: Parsons and Oja: Chapter 1
Course
syllabus
Egroups
signup instructions
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September 22:
How Computers Work (continued)
Computing: Representations, Programs (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 15 (no Section C)
Recommended: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 15 (Section C)
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September 29:
Operating Systems (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 2 (Sections A-B)
Recommended: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 4; Orfali et al.,
Chapter 6
FYI: Comparisons between Unix and Windows: 1
(Gartner), 2, 3
Sofware Development (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 13
Recommended: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 6
Homework
1, due Saturday, October 20
Quiz
1
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October 6:
Networking (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 8 (Section A), Chapter 11 (Sections
A-C)
Recommended: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 7, Chapter 11 (Section
B); Orfali et al., Chapter 4, A
Brief History of the Internet
FYI: Different
physical media
Quiz
2
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October 13:
Databases (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Orfali Ch. 10 (skim details)
FYI: Microsoft
Access Resources (tutorials, etc.)
Data Warehousing in Action (Lecture
Notes)
Al Selvin, Senior MTS at Verizon
Readings: Orfali Ch.12, 13, Data
warehouses, ad hoc query tools and other ways to destroy your company
Recommended:
Data warehousing for cavemen, Data
Warehousing for Business Intelligence
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October 20:
Databases and Querying (Lecture
notes)
Readings: SQL tutorial at http://photo.net/sql/or
at http://www.intermedia.net/support/SQL/sqltut.htm
Homework
2, due Saturday, November 17
(Please download Northwind.mdb)
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October 27:
Client/Server (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Orfali, Chapter 1-2
Distributed systems and Web Technology (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Orfali et al., Chapters 26-27, Overview
of J2EE (all three sections)
Recommended: Orfali et al., Chapters 28-29, Web
server popularity, Serverwatch,
Application
server directory, Comparison
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November 3:
Transaction processing and Distributed Systems (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Chapter 15, 16, 21, 27 (pp 580-581 only)
Information Retrieval and Search Engines (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Hypersearching
the Web
Recommended: Mediating
and metasearching on the internet, The
Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Web
size statistics, Accessibility
of information on the Web
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November 10:
EXAM
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November 17:
Integration Technologies and Distributed Systems: Enterprise Application
Integration, B2Bi, Messaging Middleware, Workflows (Lecture
Notes)
Readings: Orfali et al, Chapter 8 (pp 169-177 only), Chapter 15
Next generation Interoperability and Integration: XML, Data Integration
Servers and Web Services
Readings: Orfali et al., pages 616-648, XML
and the Second Generation Web
Recommended: Internet
Data Integration Use case, XML,
Java and the future of the Web
Homework
3, due Saturday, December 8
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November 25:
No class (Thanksgiving holiday)
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December 1:
Wireless Technology Present & Future (Lecture
NotesI,
II)
Haym Hirsh, Professor, Computer Science, Rutgers
University
Recommended: Orfali et al, pp 75-77, Wireless
LANs, WAN
communications (including table),
Mobitex,
Bluetooth,
co-existence
of Bluetooth and Wireless LAN
Wrap-up and discussion
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December 8:
Project Presentations
Unless otherwise noted, all lecture notes are Copyright 2001 IIT Group,
comprised of Professors Foster Provost and Vasilis Vassalos with contributions
by Professors Haym Hirsh, Norm White, and Chris Dellarocas.