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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, Preface (pp. xv – xvi), and The five pillars of information (pp. 51-54).

Buckland, M. K.  (1991).  Information as thing.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42, 5, 351-360.

Meadow, C. T. and Yuan, W. (1997). Measuring the impact of information: defining the concepts. Information Processing and Management, 33(6) 697-714. 

AAAS.  (1989, June/July).  Educational foundations for tomorrow’s information scientists: A report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 21.

What Will Be, Vision (pp. 3-24).

Diener, R. A. V.  (1989, June/July).  Information science: What is it?… What should it be?  Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 17.

Skovira, R. J.  (1989, June/July).  Pluralism in information science.  Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 18-19.

Horn, R. E.  (1999).  Information design: Emergence of a new profession.  In R. Jacobson (Ed.) Information design (pp. 15-33).  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.