Course Information

    Here are copies of current and past course syllabi. Past doctoral seminar notes and syllabi for courses offered in Norway are also located here. Many of the courses have been reconfigured as part of the Web and Networked Information Systems Track and as a part of the Security Track.

    • Courses for the Spring Term(2018-4) -- January 2018-April 2018 -- include:
      • INFSCI 2730 E-Business(Spring 2018) covers the technology, concepts, issues and principles that are important in the design and implementation of e-business. This course has three prerequisites, 2560 Web Technologies, 2710, DBMS, and a design course -- either 2470 or 2510.
    • Other recently offered courses are listed below. Note that many of the courses have new numbering. Some of the syllabi and lectures for newly numbered courses are still in a state of flux.
      • INFSCI 2550: Client Sever Systems(Fall 2006) examines 2, 3, and n-tier client server architectures. This is a programming intensive course that demands that students have a thorough undertanding of C and of program development using integrated development tools and debuggers in a Unix environment. In addition, the course will address more recent developments such as RMI and CORBA in a Java environment so some experience with Java and Java development tools such as netbeans or eclipse will be helpful.
      • INFSCI 2560 Web Technologies and Standards(Fall 2017) covers a number of core technologies and standards that students need to be familiar with for building web systems, and distributed systems more generally.  The course will include an extensive treatment of XML and teh XML companion standards. It will include an overview of the standardization process and the standards organizations.  The course will look primarily at web, network and data standards.
      • INFSCI 2731 Web E-Commerce Security(Spring 2016) covers the technology, concepts, issues and principles that are important in the design and implementation of secure e-commerce system. The course will examine technology for protecting electronic commerce. It will include discussion of basic security principles, as well as the issues, policy and standards particular to e-commerce applications. This course has two prerequisites, 2560 Web Technologies, 2150 Introduction to Security.
      • INFSCI 2739 Web Services and Distributed Computing(Fall 2015) is the capstone course in the Database and Web Systems Track.  The course examines advanced techniques to client server computing in the context of the world wide web.  It provides an opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills obtained in the prerequisite courses to the design and develop a functioning distributed application. The course has four prerequisites -- 2550, 2560, 2710 and 2730.
      • INFSCI 2000: Introduction to Information Science(Fall 2005) is the introductory course in the Masters Program. This course provides a blend of theory and technology with a heavy dose of history and concepts.
      • DIST 2770(replaced 2560 and 2730): Document Processing(Spring 2005)
        IS 2770 focuses on Web Document Systems. It covers structured document languages (i.e. HTML and XML), web page and site design, http protocols, and the languages used for client and server side scripting -- e.g. javascript and perl. It explores server and spider design and development as well as the design and development of collaboration tools and other next generation systems.
      • DIST 2870(replaced 2560): Information Technology Standards(Spring 1998) has not been offered for several years now, but it addressed important IT standards, the process of standards development and the landscape of standards developing organizations.
    • Notes for previous doctoral seminars:
      • INFSCI 3350 Social Networks(Fall 2010) is a doctoral seminar that will explored the theory, principles, and practices of social networks on the Web. In particular, the seminar looks at how social systems develop and how they develop strong ties between users. Select masters students approvewd by the instructor may be permitter to take the course.
      • INFSCI 3350 Aggregating Annotation Information(Fall 2007) was a doctoral seminar that explored the theory, principles, and practices of social tagging and Web 2.0 type systems that make use of aggregated information. In particular, the seminar looks at how social systems develop viral characteristics and how they make use of aggregate annotation to provide additional functionality.
      • Augmentation Seminar (1994)
      • Social Capital Seminar (1997)
      • Security and Information Warfare Seminar (1999)
      • Semantic Web Seminar(2003)
      • Aggregating Annotation Information Seminar(2008)
    • Notes for Courses at Molde College Norway
      • Document Processing(1998)
      • The Current State of E-business(2000)
      • Seminar on E-Business(2000)
      • Lectures on Document Processing and Collaborative System Design
      • Seminar on XML(2001)

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