| 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 | |