Fall 2003 Student Webpages

Extra credit assignment

Final web assignment, due December 11th

History of Information Technology

Techtionary, a complete online visual glossary of technology terms
http://crosstouch.com/techtionary/index_in.html

Smithsonian: Science and Technology
http://www.si.edu/science_and_technology/

Society for the History of Technology: Links
http://shot.jhu.edu/links.htm

PBS' The American Experience Technology Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/f_timeline.html

The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/onceandfutureweb

John Gast's "American Progress" (1872)
http://www.csubak.edu/~gsantos/img0061.html

History of Computing from ECHO Virtual Center
http://echo.gmu.edu/center/searchcat.php?DBN=echo&TBL=directory&FLD=computer&REC=1

Hobbes' Internet Timeline
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

Internet History Links from the Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/

 

Information Technology Policy

Privacy Web sites

Association for Computing Machinery Technology News Summaries
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html

Newswatch - Compendium of Media Sources
http://www.newswatch.org/

Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/

President Bush's Technology Agenda
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/technology/

Internet Public Policy Network
http://internetpublicpolicy.com/links.cfm

Benton Foundation - Digital Divide Network
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org

Open Society Institute Internet Program
http://www.soros.org/internet/

Global Information Infrastructure Commission
http://www.giic.org/

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org

Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.ietf.org

ACM Code of Ethics
http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html

IEEE Code of Ethics
http://onlineethics.org/codes/IEEEcode.html

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
http://www.cpsr.org

A Timeline of Open Source in Government
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/07/15/osgov_timeline.html

 

Theory of Information Technology

Understanding Artificial Intelligence (2002, Warner Books).

Kurzweil, Ray. 2000. The Age of Spiritual Machines. NY: Penguin.

Brooks, Rodney. 2002. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us. NY: Pantheon Books.

Further readings on Cyberspace:

Michael Benedikt, Ed. Cyberspace: First Steps (Cambridge, Mass: Mit Press, 1991).

Barrie Sherman and Phil Judkins, Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and its Implication (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992).

Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Finding Connection in a Computerised World (London: Secker and Warburg, 1994).

Claudia Springer, "The Pleasure of the Interface," Screen, 32 (3), Autumn 1991.

Peter Weibel, "Virtual Worlds: the Emperor's New Bodies," in Hattinger et al., Ars Electronica 1990.

Shawn P. Wilbur, "An Archaeology of Cyberpaces: Virtuality, Community,Identity," in David Bell and Barbara Kennedy, Eds., The Cybercultures Reader (NY: Routledge, 2000).

Arturo Escobar, "Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture," in David Bell and Barbara Kennedy, Eds., The Cybercultures Reader (NY: Routledge, 2000).

Links to editorials and papers critiquing contemporary technology and science, and the society that sustains them
http://www.socialcritic.org/

Essays on the philosophy of technology
http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/techessay.htm

Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/

Technology and Culture Bibliography and Online Resources
http://www.fred.net/tzaka/techne3.html

Rodney Brooks Home Page
http:// www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/index.shtml

SRI’s AI Center
http://www.ai.sri.com

MIT AI lab
http://www.ai.mit.edu/index.shtml

NUA Survey: How Many Online?
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/

Online Depression Study
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.4/featherstone.html

Michio Kaku
http://www.mkaku.org/movie.html

Glossary of Geek (from PBS's site on the history of the Internet)
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/geek_glossary/

The Hacker Jargon File
http://www.jargonfile.org/jargon/html/The-Jargon-Lexicon-framed.html

TECHtionary
http://www.techtionary.com

 

Information Technology Design

Information overload sources

Best all-around list of links for web site design, content, layout, how-to's, and issues like copyrights and public domain
http://www.fixingyourwebsite.com/links.html

Web Pages That Suck
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

Jakob Nielsen's Web Design and Usability Site
http://www.useit.com/

Web-safe Color Palette
http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html

Wired: Design is a Chain Reaction
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.01/designopener.html

MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu/

Calculating Cartoons
http://www.sciencenews.org/20020126/bob10.asp

Soda Constructor
http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm

Star Wars Asciimation
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

Crash course on HDTV
http://www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse/hdtv/

Assistive Technology and Accessible Media in Higher Education, November 6-8. Boulder
http://www.colorado.edu/sacs/ATconference/

 

The Bleeding Edge

XM radio
http://www.xmradio.com/

Sirius radio
http://www.siriusradio.com/

Sony robot does Tai Chi (Quicktime video)
http://www.tokyodv.com/news/RoboDex2002SDR-3XSonybot.html

Netsurfer Robotics
http://www.netsurf.com/nsr/

Finnish Hunting Dogs Are Issued With Mobile Phones
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_654158.html

NIST Biometrics Resource Web Site
http://www.nist.gov/biometrics

Views from Space, Courtesy of NASA
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/

World Summit on Sustainable Development, August 26 - September 4, 2002
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance:
Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science
http://itri.loyola.edu/ConvergingTechnologies/

The World According to David Gelernter
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc9801.htm

Death Ray Weapons "Ready in a Decade"
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/7-8-19102-23-44-22.html