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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

What Will Be, Chapter 13: Electronic proximity (pp. 277-294).

Graves, M., Grisedale, S., and Grunsteidl, A.  (1998).  Unfamiliar ground: Designing technology to support rural healthcare workers in India.  SIGCHI Bulletin, 30, 2, 134-143.

Van Tassel.  (1991).  Yakety-Yak, do talk back!: PEN, the nation’s first publicly funded electronic network, makes a difference in Santa Monica.  In R. Kling (Ed.) Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd ed.) (pp. 547-551).  Boston: Academic Press.

What Will Be, Chapter 9: Business and Organizations (pp. 191-214).