We will cover a variety of key topics which will provide a core understanding of what the internet is and how the internet works. In particular, we will discuss Webpages, Internet Computing, Internet Hardware, Search Engines, Multimedia, Encryption, Coevolution. Finally, in this section we consider the legal ramifications of the internet and the way in which global legal systems have tried to address various issues raised by the internet, especially intellectual property and privacy. In fact, the course will be more of a web of repeating motifs than this outline suggests. Several ideas will resurface in multiple contexts, for example, cryptography and privacy will be discussed when we consider the architecture of the internet and they play a role in E-commerce and many other areas.
Intellectual property is an important factor in academic research as well as in online communities.
Prof. Martin Cohn, COSI Prof. Richard Gaskins , AMST, LGLS Prof. It is appropriate at the beginning of a course on the internet to take a high level look at the World Wide Web and ask how it is conceived by its creators. That is why we have assigned the reading Realizing the Full Potential of the Web by Tim Berners-Lee, the original creator of the World Wide Web. Intercreativity One of Berners-Lee's key aspirations for the web is that it should provide an effective channel for expressing intercreativity. One manifestation of this concept is the Wiki which is a website that can be read by anyone, but can be modified by only those members who know the password.