April 29: Students Search Web for First Real-World Jobs. The following is for your information, not assigned reading for the test: [Rutgers Camden's Career Planning and Placement Service offers an excellent on-line and walk-in job search services for both students and alumni. Their online resume tutorial has proved helpful to many students, and they will also offer provide personalized feedback on your resume. They have career counseling and job search software which you can use in the office as well.]
April 21: Sowing Technology's Seeds in Developing Countries.
April 19: The net's real business in .com to .com. and Privacy on Internet Poses Legal Puzzle.
April
15: Web
Phones: The Next Big Thing? and Kosovo
Conflict Inspires Digital Art Projects ("Disconnected"
is from "Pictures of a Bridge" by Klaus-dieter Michel, a German artist.)
April 14: Computer
Age Gains Respect of Economists
and Volunteering
on AOL.
April 11: Searching for the Essence of the World Wide Web
April 10: One City, 2 Booksellers and a Bit of Bad Blood.
April 5: Free
Web Music Spreads From Campus to Office and
Computer
Program Recognizes Facial Expression
April 1. We
Can Make Van Gogh 3-D! Should We?
March 30. Email plays a vital role in a war. Super-fast computer virus heads into the work week.
March 29. From the UPI: Internet Sex May be Harmful.
March 28 Utah Aims to Put All State Services Online. And a brief story about Bill Gates new book, excerpts from which are on the April 23 page.
March 24: Flood of E-Mail Credited With Halting U.S. Bank Plan and an article on Internet Instruction in colleges, with links to a long essay denouncing "digital diploma mills" and to the WEB site for Jones University, the first accredited cyberspace University. If you go to the Jones Site, you can take a "tour" of some of their classes.
March 23: A story on Mindless Creatures Acting 'Mindfully', which does an excellent job of tying together many of the basic themes we have been studying in this course. We will examine this article in detail on April 23 and it will be covered on the final, not on the second exam.
March 18: Attempts to censor the Internet in Saudi Arabia. A story from the Philadelphia Inquirer about The Commanding Voice - voice interface and conversation. Also on this site, in case the Inquirer drops it.
March 17: An OpEd essay on "The Arrogant Ascent to 10,000" by JOSEPH NOCERA, on the effect of Internet Trading on the Stock Market. Steve Forbes is the first Presidential candidate to open his campaign on the Internet. To view his announcement, you can go directly to: http://www.forbes2000.com/
March 15: The Great Campus Goof-Off Machine - Looks like the students at Swarthmore aren't as hard working as ours here at Rutgers!
March 11: A long story on how computers are changing the field of architecture. We will come back to this, including the linked stories on the use of software to string holes together and on the digital design for a planetarium dome.
March 10: Schools Split on the Use of Internet Filters.
March 9: The number of publications written exclusively for the WEB is growing.
March 5: Are computer programs a protected form of free speech?
March 4: Whales in the Minnesota River? An article on the problems of finding quality information on the Internet.
March 2: Clinton Says All Classrooms Will Be Wired by 2000
February 27: An article about a Bogus WEB site used in a political campaign (from the Philadelphia Inquirer) - I loaded it on this site because I do not know how long the Inquirer keeps sites up.
February 26: Caveat Emptor on the Web, a story about the blurring of Advertising and Editorial Lines.
Feb 25: An article about "cyber-initiatives" as a political tool.
February 23. An article about chat rooms as a marketing strategy for internet companies.
February 21. A story about Bill Gates charitable donations to libraries which cynics view as part of the campaign to entrench the Windows operating system.
February 20. An article about open-source software, from The Economist. An article from the Times on how the Internet has spawned a language of its own.
February 17: A story about an Internet Journal for papers by undergraduate students. A story about the effect of the Internet on the process of applying to college.
February 14: A very useful story called Art and Science: A Universe Apart? by Richard Panek. This story should be read carefully. It covers much the same ground as my lecture on Feb 12 on numerical archetypes (he calls them "dimensions" but it is the same general idea). He discusses the relationship between Cubism and the theory of relativity, which I also mentioned. This story should be read careful. Also in the Valentines day Times, a story about Y2K Utopianism and story about digital art - we will come back to the topic of digital art later in the term, this story is just to draw your attention to the fact that this is very much a growing field in the art world. There are links on both topics, including a link to a Forum discussion (similar to our discussion list) on Visual Arts and Architecture. Some of you may wish to pursue this for your writing assignments.
Feb. 11: More states considering legislation against junk email.
Feb 10: Amazon.com rescinds its new policy. A story about the subversive influence of the Internet in China.
Feb. 8: Amazon.com's policy of selling space on its WEB site to publishers. The next "giant step in the Internet revolution": Motorola and Cisco join forces to market wireless Internet. A story about "A Computer Program That Thinks Like a Human (Almost)" (featuring none other than our consulting instructor Ben Goertzel).
Feb 7: Can a computer program practice law? Should it be allowed to? A review of a book called Readings about the effects of the computer culture on literature. Note that you can also read the first chapter of the book online. How do you feel about the experience of reading online in this course, as compared to the experience of reading in books printed on paper? This is a good topic to write about in your journal.
Feb 5: A review story about legal rulings on free speech on the Internet. This is worth reading all the way through. Students interested in the Law will find the links a good introduction to WEB sites on legal issues.
Feb 4: A story on AT&T's attempt to control cable internet access. An essay titled He'll Take His Web Pages Straight, With No Java Jive. This is an essay, not a news story written in inverted pyramid style, so it should be read in its entirety. It will give you some things to think about in preparing your own WEB persona.
February 2: A jury awards damages of over $100 million to people targeted in an anti-abortion WEB site. Also, the proposed new digital library., and a plea entered in an internet stalking case.
February 1: Putting the Music Business Online. And paying consumers to read ads on the Internet.
January 31 articles about Worries About Big Brother at America Online. and about the death of Prodigy, one of the pioneers in marketing consumer services to the general public? A question to think about: why has AOL triumphed and Prodigy failed? Can the theory of evolution help us understand this?
January 28: Yahoo is acquiring Geocities. Part of the battle to win market share in the Internet business - what services will attract people to use a company as their main "portal" to cyberspace?
January 27: A story about a computer program for grading essays, to be used by the Educational Testing Service. This relates to the question of artificial intelligence, can a computer make judgments about the quality of a students' work?
A January 26 article on a privacy issues with the forthcoming Pentium III processor. This shows the interaction between technology and civil liberties issues.
A January 25 article headlined College
Freshmen's Internet Use a Way of Life, but Disparities Emerge
This highlights the importance of
being on the Internet, and the disadvantage to students whose institutions
cannot afford to provide this resource.