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INFO 300
Intellectual Foundations of Informatics

Course Syllabus
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Readings by Topic

  1. Informatics - Definition and Scope
  2. The History of the  Internet
  3. Representation
  4. Manipulation
  1. Classification
  2. Interfaces and Interactive Design
  3. Containers: Documents, Augmented Reality, and Ubiquitous Computing
  1. Human Values: Privacy, Security, and Property
  2. Globalization, Community, and Cultural Diversity Online
  3. Biology, Information and Computation

Readings

Devlin, K.  (1995, April).  Test tube computing with DNA.  Math Horizons, pp. 14-21.

Jain, A., Hong, L., & Pankanti, S.  (2000).  Biometric identification.  Communications of the ACM, 43, 2, 90-98.

Abelson, H., Allen, D., Coore, D., Hanson, C., Homsy, G., Knight, T. F. Jr., Nagpal, R., Rauch, E., Sussman, G. J., & Weiss, R.  (2000).  Amorphous computing.  Communications of the ACM, 43, 5 74-82.

Moor, J. H.  (1999).  Using genetic information while protecting the privacy of the soul.  Ethics and Information Technology, 1, 4, 257-263.