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Seminar Orientation Introduction to Current Issues
Assignment for Tues 1/18/2000 Utopic visions -
Dystopic vision
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Martin Luther King Holiday |
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*****SNOW******* Discussion of Bush and Greenberger Assignment for Thursday 1/20/2000
AntiTrust in the New Economy
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Dystopias and Utopias Discussion of Technotopias - Good and Evil Assignment for Tuesday 1/25/2000 Read Open Sources |
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*****SNOW******* Assignment for Thursday 1/27/2000
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*****SNOW****** |
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday; | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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Neuman's context for Orwell and Bush Hobbes'
Internet Timeline
Assignment for Tuesday 2/1/99
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Neuman - How True?
What about Open Source and Neuman? Preparing for your presentations
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Kendall Clark of the North Texas Linux User Group on Moral and Social sides to Open Source and Free Software Richard Stallman:
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Assignment of topics |
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Donnie Barnes of Red Hat discussing Open Sources in practice. |
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Guest speaker Warren Robinett Warren Robinett does research in applications of interactive computer graphics at the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Specific areas of interest are micro-teleoperation, augmented reality, and educational software. At UNC, he co-invented the nanoManipulator, a virtual-reality interface to a scanning-probe microscope, which allows a scientist to be virtually present on the surface of a microscopic sample within the microscope. In the mid-1980's at NASA Ames Research Center, Robinett designed the software for the Virtual Environment Workstation, NASA's pioneering virtual reality project. In 1980, he co-founded of The Learning Company, now a major publisher of educational software. There he designed Rocky's Boots , a computer game which taught digital logic design to upper grade-school children, using an interactive, visual simulation. Rocky's Boots won Software of the Year awards from three magazines in 1983. In 1978, he designed the Atari video game Adventure, the first graphical adventure game. Robinett is Associate Editor for the journal Presence. Phil Zimmerman speaking at NCSU on Privacy and the Internet 4:30 136 Engineering Graduate Research Center (136 EGRC) |
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Dan on MP3 Controversy
RIAA's Soundbyting.com |
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Hannah and Robyn - Database concentration and data mining - 1
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Hannah and Robyn - Database concentration and data mining 2 |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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Lisa - e-commerce - current trends, hot issues, future directions
the standard for internet commerce that was developed by Global
Information Infrastructure (GII), in association with Ziff Davis.
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Copyright and Distance Education Townmeeting Friday Center 1 - 4:30 with a reception following |
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Where we are so far (also possible speaker) |
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Spring Break begins |
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Spring Break ends |
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Peter - Quality of Information |
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Harry - MP3 Controversy |
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James - Politicization of the Internet |
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Robyn - Tripwire |
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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Dan - Napster Hannah - DHTML | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 - Distance Education Week
Jones at Conference on World Affairs
Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education by David Noble 1997 |
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Jones at Conference on World Affairs
Debate on Noble at UVa |
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James - ZeroKnowledge and Freedomnet Harry - Flash |
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Linda Watson of Egarden |
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Good Friday Holiday |
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Peter - RVP and Buddy List Lisa - XML editors |
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Summarizing the topics and tieing it all together |
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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Final Class Meeting |
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