CPSC547 Advanced Information Systems

Lecture Notes and Background Reading

• Organizational Information Systems
• Classroom Style
• Multimedia and the Internet
• Engines for Education
• Knowledge Based Systems
• Social Issues
  Select the link "Readings on Communications and Information Technology." Start with "Computerization Movements and Tales of Electronic Utopianism." You don't need to read all the Information Highway Advisory Committee document under "Documents and Links about the Canadian Information Hignway Debate", but should briefly skim the executive summary. Have a similar look at the Stentor Home Page, also on that link. Then look at "Oral Knowledge, Typographic Knowledge, Electronic Knowledge," also on the "Readings in Communication And Information Technology" link.
• Enterprise Modeling

Other Relevant Web Sites

• CPSC547 1995 Student Reports
• Another course like ours
• Intercom Ontario
• Computer Science Study Resources

Search Engines

• Yahoo -- hierarchical index
• Alta Vista -- search by content
• Lycos -- search by content
• MetaCrawler -- search by content from multiple crawlers

Lab Projects

• Project I
• Project II
• Project III

Notes on Presentations

• Overview of the Information Highway
• Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing
• Virtual Reality
• Wide-Area Broadband Networks
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Cross-Platform GUI's & Web Browsers
• Visual Programming
• Object Oriented Systems in Organizations
• EDI, EFT, and Networked Organizations
• Intelligent Agents
• Privacy and Security on the Information Highway
• Ethics and Liability on the Information Highway
• Introduction of New Technology : Human Factors

Final Provisional Grades