LBSC 690 - Information Technology
Fall 2008 - Section 0101
Required Readings

The readings serve two important functions in this class. The first is to introduce you to the topics that we will discuss in the class, something that can only be done before the indicated week's class begins. The second is to convey material in more detail than it is possible to discuss in class. Since the material in the readings is testable regardless of whether it is discussed directly in class, it would be a good idea to go back over the readings after class is over in order to ensure that you have understand the details that are related to the concepts we discussed in class. Information technology is a rapidly changing field, and occassionally new readings become available (or come to my attention) that I would like to take advantage of, so please check back here a week before each class for updates.

• Computer, Wikipedia.
• Gary B. Shelley, Thomas J. Cashman and Misty E. Vermaat, Discovering Computers 2008 Complete, Chapter 7 (Storage), Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (all password protected)
• James R. Powell, The Quantum Limit to Moore's Law, Proceedings of the IEEE, 96(8)1247-1248, 2008 (Available through ResearchPort)
• Warriors of the Net, Ericsson Medialab. 2002. Also available from Google Video

• Internet, Wikipedia.
• Russ Haynal, Information Navigators (Read all five entries under "Where did that Web page come from?")
• Dave Raggett, Getting Started with HTML, 2002. (read for detail, and then skim "Advanced HTML" to see what's there)
• Publishing Web Pages at Maryland, University of Maryland Office of Information Technology, 2008.

• John F. Gantz et al., The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe, IDC, 2008.
• Michael K. Bergman, The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value, Journal of Electronic Publishing, 7(1), 2001
• Shneiderman, Ben, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for effective human-computer interaction, 4th ed. (Addison-Wesley, 2004), Chapter 1: Part 1, Part 2 (password protected PDF).
• AskTOG, First Principles of Interaction Design

• Dave Raggett, Adding a Touch of Style, 2002.
• XML in 10 Points
• A Technical Introduction To XML, O'Reilly, 1998.
• Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web, Scientific American, 2001.

• Richard Stanway, When and How to Use Internet Image Formats, 2006.
• Matt Ottewill, How do Audio Analogue to Digital Converters Work?
• Introduction to Streaming Media, Chapter 2 (Media Production)

• Hermann Roesch, "Digital Reference Services: State of the Art in the Focus on Quality, 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, August 2006, Seoul, Korea
• S. Guha, N. Daswani and R. Jain. "An Experimental Study of the Skype Peer-to-Peer VoIP System," In Proceedings of The 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '06), Santa Barbara, CA, February 2006, pp. 1-6.

• Databases from Scratch, 1998 (read all three parts).

• Introduction to Databases for the Web, 1998 (Read through part 11).
• Read one of the following:
  • Introduction to SQL (read through SQL Delete)
  • SQL Course (read through Drop a Table on page 8)

• David Thau, JavaScript Tutorial, 2008 (read though lesson 5).
• Brooks, Frederick P., "The Mythical Man Month", Chapter 2 (password-protected PDF)

• HTML Forms and Input
• PHP Manual, Section I, Getting Started

• Michael Lesk, The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval, Conference for the 50th Anniversary of As We May Think, 1995.
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, Addison Wesley Longman, 1999, Chapter 1

• Richard Stallman, Why Software Should be Free, 1992.
• Risks Digest (Read the issue closest to your birthday in each of the last five years)

• Dan Farmer and Charles C. Mann, Surveillance Nation, Technology Review, 2003. Also read Part 2.
• Fair Use, Library of Congress, 2006.
• Digital Rights Management, Wikipedia.
• Anti-Circumvention, Wikipedia.