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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

Bailey, K. D.  (1994).  Chapter 1: Typologies and taxonomies in social science (pp. 1-16).  Typologies and Taxonomies: An Introduction to Classification Techniques.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Gould, S.  (1983).  Chapter 28: What, if anything, is a zebra?  (pp. 355-365)  Hen’s Teeth and Horses Toes: Further Reflections on Natural History.  New York, NY: Norton.

Dumais, S. T., & Landauer, T. K.  (1984).  Describing categories of objects for menu retrieval systems.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 16, 2 242-248.

Carlyle, A.  (1999).  User categorization of works: Toward improved organization of online catalogue displays.  Journal of Documentation, 55(2), 184-208.

Suchman, L.  (1994).  Do categories have politics?  The language/action perspective reconsidered.  Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Journal, 2, 3, 177-190.

Winograd, T.  (1994).  Categories, disciplines, and social coordination.  Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Journal, 2, 3, 191-197.

Malone, T. W..  (1994).  Commentary on Suchman article and Winograd response.  Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Journal, 3, 37-38.