180 Day 4 Notes

January 24, 2001

NOTE: we will discuss project ideas NEXT Monday

1. One minute papers

Big point

Info=/= meaning in Shannon

Info alone not enough, but relationships to other info & know

More emphasis on structure than substance of info

Q:

Equity issues for progress

Coding theory?

Summaries of PhD work at SILS?

Why is citation analysis important?

Why scholarly comm. discussed? Examples?

Webs of trust?

Do all these fields connect? (yes, it’s called IS!)
what does heuristic mean?

More about IA?

Citation analysis related ot Eco’s all books speak to other books? (sure, but explicit)

Does info look more similar as we have to process it more quickly?

How can reviews get incorporated into a web search?

2. Yihua Zhang: Tannen (see list notes)

3. Autumn Winters: Rogers (see list notes)

4. Emily Warmoth: Chatman #1. (see list notes)

5. The one-minute paper

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?