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Informatics I101:
Introduction to Informatics
Required Readings:
- Week One
Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: "Minicomputer", "Mainframe", "Altair", "DOS", "Lisa", "Alto", "Macintosh", "Windows
Evolution", "UNIX", "Moore's Law", "Digital", "Analog", "GIF", "JPEG", "MP3", "Sampling Rate",
"Resolution"
Supplemental Readings:
- As We May Think by Vannevar
Bush, 1945
This article represents the first expression of the idea of the "information
age" that was to come. Realize that this was written just as the first digital computer,
ENIAC, was created almost 60 years ago...
- Wired.Com
Stay on top of tech news with Wired.
- Data Smog
This article talks about the possible physiological ailments that can be caused by information (some argue that the term should be data) overload. This is an older article, but I think
it still has remarkable relevance 5 years later.
- P2P and Piracy
Larry Lessig from Stanford Law School tells us that not all piracy is bad and
compares P2P today to the movie business in California in the early 20th century.
- The Matrix
This article from wired talks about the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information
Exchange, a central database for all kinds of personal records that law enforcement
agents could search at any time...
- Good Riddance, Gigahertz
The author of this article from Wired talks about naming conventions for processors now that all chip makers
are dropping the clock speed from CPU names.
- How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
Problems with e-voting, anyone?
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The Wired Top 40 Companies
A listing of the 40 most innovative companies and what they are doing to stay on top.
- Number Bases slide
- Database slides
- Encryption Slides
- Internet Slides
- Extra Credit Book choices:
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