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INFO 300
Intellectual Foundations of Informatics

Course Syllabus
(a pdf file)
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 2: The revolution unfolds (pp. 25-51) and Chapter 4: New Tools (pp. 81-98).

Bush, V.  (1945, July).  As we may think.  Atlantic Monthly.  (http://uic.nnov.ru/pustyn/lib/vbush.html).