Class Schedule for Information and Internet Technologies

• January 30:

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
 
• February 6:

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)
 
• February 13:

Operating Systems (Lecture Notes)
Readings: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 2 (Sections A-B)
Recommended: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 4; Orfali et al., Chapter 6, A strategic comparison between Unix and Windows
FYI: Comparisons between Unix and Windows: 1 (Gartner), 2, 3
Sofware Development (Lecture Notes)
Readings: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 13, Java Security Architecture Extensions (*not* Cryptography architecture)
Recommended: Parsons and Oja, Chapter 6
Homework 1, due Wednesday, March 6
 
• February 20:

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
 
• February 27:

Invited Lecture: Wireless Technology Present & Future (Lecture Notes)
Haym Hirsh, Professor, Computer Science, Rutgers University
Recommended: Orfali et al, pp 75-77, More about wireless, Wireless LANs, WAN communications (including table), Mobitex,Bluetooth, co-existence of Bluetooth and Wireless LAN
Databases (Lecture Notes)
Readings: Orfali Ch. 10 (skim details)
FYI: Microsoft Access Resources (tutorials, etc.)
 
• March 6:

Invited Lecture: Data Warehousing in Action (Lecture Notes)
Al Selvin, Senior Member of Technical Staff, 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
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 Wednesday, April 3
(Please download Northwind.mdb)
 
 
• March 13

Spring Break

• March 20:

Databases and Querying (Cont.), Database Pragmatics (Lecture Notes)
Client/Server (Lecture Notes)
Readings: Orfali, Chapter 1-2
 
• March 27:

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
Transaction processing and Distributed Systems (Lecture Notes)
Readings: Chapter 15, 16, 21, 27 (pp 580-581 only)
 
• April 3:

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
Homework 3, due Wednesday, May 1
 
• April 10

Examination
 
• April 17

Invited lecture: Principles of Sustainable Online Community
Philip Greenspun, ex-CEO and founder, ArsDigita,  and author, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
Recommended: Philip's web page at http://philip.greenspun.com
Next generation Interoperability and Integration: XML, Data Integration Servers and Web Services (Lecture Notes)
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

• April 24:

Invited Lecture: Technologies for Security
Angelos Keromytis, Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University
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
 
• May 1:

Wrap up
Project Presentations