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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

Ishii, H. & Ullmer, B.  (1997).  Tangible bits: Towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms.  Conference Proceedings of CHI 97: Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 234-241).  New York, NY: ACM Press.

Mynatt, E. D.  (2000).  Co-opting everyday objects.  In W. E. Mackay (Ed.) Proceedings of DARE 2000 (pp. 145-146).  New York, NY: ACM Press.  [Copyright permission given for classroom use.]

Kolata, G. (2000, April 4).  Next up: Surgery by remote control.  The New York Times. F1, F4.

Billinghurst, M., & Kato, H.  (2002).  Collaborative augmented reality.  Communications of the ACM, 45(7), 64 – 70.

Hillis, W. D.  (2002).   The power to shape the world.  Communications of the ACM, 45(7), 32 – 35.

Mackay, W. E.  (2000).  Augmented reality: Dangerous liaisons or the best of both worlds?  In W. E. Mackay (Ed.) Proceedings of DARE 2000 (pp. 170-171).  New York, NY: ACM Press.  [Copyright permission given for classroom use.]

Borriello, G. & Want, R.  (2000).  Embedded computation meets the World Wide Web.  Communications of the ACM, 43, 5, 59-66.

Brey, P.  (1999).  Ethics of representation and action in virtual reality.  Ethics and Information Technology, 1, 1 5-14.