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Syllabus

LabThis is the tentative schedule - visit often for updates.

There is also a visual representation ("mind map") of the material we will cover in The Socio-Technological Web course.

IMPORTANT
: You must read the "Material" and the "News item" before class, and come prepared for discussion on them.
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September 7, 2010 Lab-01 Lab01: CS Accounts, ftp and basic html    
September 9, 2010 L00 Overview; Logistics What is Web 2.0 (video) How many of these ideas are related to CS114 themes? See FirstClass conference for link to "Entry Questionnaire" 
September 13, 2010 L01 Digital Footprints BITS Ch. 1 Watch first 4 minutes of Dertouzos interview on the future of the internet Quiz 1 Due 
September 14, 2010 Lab-02 Lab02: Introduction to HTML  Facebook in Privacy Breach   
September 16, 2010 L02 Location Detection BITS Ch. 2 Mapping traffic's toll on wildlife  
September 20, 2010 L03 Online Social Networks HCE Ch. 1 Tale of a lost cellphone HW1 due - see FC conference for its description 
September 21, 2010 Lab-03 Lab03: continue on building a web site    
September 23, 2010 L04 Representation of characters, Unicode, programs CS110 Lecture on Representation On the Goodness of Unicode  
September 27, 2010 L05 Representation of images, colors, movies BITS Ch. 3 Burst of Technology Helps Blind to See HW2 due - See FC conference for description 
September 28, 2010 Lab-04 Lab04: Decimal, Binary, Hex Representation    
September 30, 2010 L06 Static pages; HTML TBL Ch. 1-2 History of the web  
October 4, 2010 L07 Dynamic pages; XML, WebDBs CS110 JavaScript Applications Why Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy  
October 5, 2010 Lab-05 Lab05: Images, file sizes & Fireworks    
October 7, 2010 L08 Representation of Location, URLs TBL Ch. 3-4 Google Plan With Verizon Disillusions Some Allies HW3 due - See FC conference for description 
October 12, 2010 L09 Protocols, HTTP BITS Appendix  Quiz 2 due 
October 14, 2010 L10 Search Engines; Crawling and indexing; Querying the SEs BITS Ch. 4 Classroom lessons and resources (At google.com) Voting best argument due 
October 18, 2010 L11 The shape of the Web    
October 19, 2010 Lab-06 Lab06:on Cascading Style Sheets - CSS    
October 21, 2010 L12 Information reliability, PageRank, Web Spam On the evolution of search engine rankings Real-Life Lessons in Using Google AdWords   
October 25, 2010 L13 Multimedia search engines BITS Ch. 4 New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines HW4 due - see FC conference for description 
October 26, 2010 Lab-07 Lab 07: Dreamweaver    
October 28, 2010 L14 Private communications, cookies, HTTPS, certificates Lecture on Cookies The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets  
November 1, 2010 L15 Cryptography BITS Ch. 5 Alan Turing and the Enigma machine  
November 2, 2010 Lab-08 Lab08: Computing PageRank    
November 4, 2010 L16 Public Keys BITS Ch. 5 On Programming Languages Quiz 3 due - See FC conference 
November 8, 2010 L17 Representation of Sound, Music, MP3s; Digital Rights Ownership BITS Ch. 6  Oy Tenenbaum! RIAA wins $675,000, or $22,500 per song  
November 9, 2010 Lab-09 Lab09: Cryptography   Email your instructors with your project title and a 100-word description 
November 11, 2010 L18 P2P Technologies; Copyright BITS Ch. 6 Google vs Viacom  
November 15, 2010 Review for midterm Review for exam   Prepare your questions! 
November 16, 2010 Lab-10 Lab10: Cookies   Email your instructors with an outline of your paper 
November 18, 2010 MIDTERM In-class, open book miterm exam    
November 22, 2010 L21 Characteristics of Social Networks EK2-Graphs The Oracle of Bacon We'll go over the exam 
November 23, 2010 Lab-11 Lab 11: Javascript   Email your instructors a draft of the paper where the arguments are fleshed out 
November 25, 2010 No class - Thanksgiving     
November 29, 2010 L22 From Pre-Web technologies to Smart Mobs Clay Shirky's TED talk How to create a Smart Mob: Understanding a Social Network Capital Quiz 4 - See FC conference 
November 30, 2010 Lab-12: Quiz Form Lab-12: Quiz Form    
December 2, 2010 L23 First 9 Student Presentations   Final project is due. Prepare any handouts and slides in advance, post them in the FC conference. 
December 6, 2010 L24 Next 9 Student Presentations    
December 7, 2010 Lab-13 Lab13: TBA    
December 9, 2010 L26 Worries and Opportunities for Human 2.0 BITS Ch. 9 (Conclusion) Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar  
December 9, 2010 L25 Remaining Student Presentations and Coping in a distracting cyberworld  Growing up digital, wired for distraction  
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