Internet Applications
- Aug. 21, 26
- Administrivia: class policys, expectations, on-line syllabus
- Surfing the Web
-
Growth of the Web
(Matthew Gray at MIT)
- Introduction to the Internet
- Internet Applications Structure
- Domains and Hosts: the Internet Name Structure
- Aug 28
- No Class
- September 1
- No Class -- University Holiday
- Sept. 4, 9
- Telnet & Internet addressing
- Introduction to Unix and Filesystem Concepts
- Email: Pine on Unix
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Mailing Lists
- Sept. 11, 16
- Email:
MIME &
Listservers
- Usenet News & Newsreaders
- SIFT
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Read Chapter 13 in Using the Internet (Email) and Chapter 19 (News)
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Read Chapter 4 in EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet (suggested)
- Sept. 18
- FTP
- Sept. 23
- Archie,
WAIS
- Ungraded Exercises
- Answers!
World Wide Web and Web Publishing
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September 25
- Introduction to the
World
Wide Web
URLs,
Browser Wars
- Sept. 30
- Basic HTML and HTML+
- Creating Web Pages
- HTML 3.0
- HTML Style: writing for the hyperlinked media
- Chapters 1,2,3 in HTML Sourcebook
- Oct. 2
- Internet Resource Discovery:
Alta Vista and beyond
- October 7
- Student Talks begin
- Images in Web Publishing:
GIF, JPEG,
PNG
- October 9
- Image Maps
- October 14
- Forms (gforms example)
- October 16
- No class (Fall Break)
- October 21
- Basics of Gateway Scripting
- October 23
- Javascript (I)
- October 28
- Javascript (II)
- October 30
- Midterm Exam
Digital Multimedia and the World Wide Web
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- November 4
- Digital Audio
- L. Press, "Net.Speech: Desktop Audio Comes to the Net",
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, Number 10, October 1995, pp.
25-31. (on reserve)
- November 6
- Digital Video (page by Jim Gogan, Director of Networking and Telecommunications, UNC-CH)
- Xing Streamworks
- Suggested readings:
- J. Donath,
"The Illustrated Conversation", in Multimedia Tools and Applications,
1, Kluwer Publishers, 1995, pp. 79-88.
- E. Isaacs and J. Tang, "What video can and cannot do for collaboration:
a case study", Multimedia Systems, Volume 2, 1994, pp. 63-73.
- November 11
- WWW Collaboration Tools
- November 13
- Digital Libraries (4 Perspectives)
- November 18
- Distance Learning Technologies
-
Impact of the Internet Technologies
- November 20
- On-line Journalism and Scholarship
- November 25
- Privacy: PGP, Public Key Encryption, Cookies
- November 27
- The New Economy
- December 2
- Security and Telecommunication Deregulation
- December 4
- Speculations on the Future
- December 10 at noon
- Final Project due!!