| The Basics: Hardware, OS, and Software |
| 1 |
Introduction: Course Overview; Inside the CPU |
|
| 2 |
Computer Architecture: Processing, Memory and I/O |
|
| 3 |
Computer Representations; Compression |
Nelson, Mark. The Data Compression Book. New York: M&T Books, 1992. |
| 4 |
Operating Systems |
|
| 5 |
Software Development |
|
| Databases |
| 6 |
Relational Databases; Database Queries using SQL |
|
| 7 |
An Introduction to Microsoft Access |
|
| 8 |
Relational Database Design |
|
| 9 |
Introduction to User Interface Building with Access Examples |
|
| Networks and Telecommunications |
| 10 |
Telecommunication Concepts; Data Transmission |
|
| 11 |
Local Area Networks; Ethernet; Packet-switched Networks |
|
| 12 |
Midterm Exam - In Class |
|
| 13 |
Wide Area Networks; The Internet |
|
| 14 |
Wireless Network Technologies |
|
| Distributed Computing and Web Technologies |
| 15 |
Client/Server, Peer-to-Peer and the WWW |
|
| 16 |
Security I: Public Key Cryptography |
Microsoft Security Home Page
- Advisors
- Patches
- IIS Security Checklist
SecurityFocus
- Mailing List
- Tools, Books, Links
- Vulnerabilities and Fixes
McClure, Stuart, Joel Scambray, and George Kurtz. Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003.
Decrypting in RSA (for aficionados only) - see this paper: Rivest, R.L., A. Shamir, and L. Adleman. A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 21, 2. February 1978, pp. 120-126.
|
| 17 |
Security II: Digital Signatures; Network Security |
Same as Lecture 16.
|
| 18 |
Evolution of Web Technologies |
Scientific American: The Semantic Web
A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities.
Also available in print: Berners-Lee, Tim, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American, May 2001, pp. 35-43.
|
| eBusiness Applications |
| 19 |
Under the Hood of a Commercial Web site |
|
| 20 |
Data Mining, Data Warehousing |
Recommended book: Berry, Michael J. A., and Gordon Linoff. Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support. John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Useful collections of links - Chapple, Mike. Data Mining and Data Warehousing. About.com.
Case studies and industry - Datamation magazine web site.
|
| 21 |
Software Agents |
For more information on Amalthea: A Personalized Information Discovery Agent Ecosystem, see:
Moukas, Amalthaea. Amalthaea: Information Discovery and Filtering Using a Multiagent Evolving Ecosystem. Proceedings of the Conference on Practical Application of Intelligent Agents & Multi-Agent Technology. London, 1996.
|
| 22 |
Student Presentations I |
|
| 23 |
Student Presentations II |
|
| 24 |
Trends in eBusiness Technology; Course Wrap-up |
|
| 25 |
Final Exam - In Class |
|