Undergraduate course covers variety of social issues confounded by information technology. Topics include information and communications privacy, workplace issues, intellectual property in an electronic environment, and Constitutional matters, among others. Format consists of lectures, lively class discussions and exercises, and in-depth student presentations. Undergraduate course introduces theory and concepts for the storage and retrieval of information, from the perspective of both system developers and system users. Topics include users information needs, the representation of information, data structures, document preprocessing, retrieval models, query formulation and processing, evaluation techniques, and a variety of Web-based issues.
Format consists primarily of lectures.
Spring 1998, Fall 1997. Detailed undergraduate-level technical course describes how computers work. Covers hardware and firmware components, operating systems, and applications software. Format consists of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs. Undergraduate course provides introduction to information retrieval.