Course # 22:010:648:40                                      Time: Tuesday, 6 - 9 p.m., Newark Campus

9/10/96
1. Surfing the Internet: uniform resource locators (URL), information browsing (GOPHER and World Wide Web), Web browsers and servers, automated search (Archie and WAIS).
   • (KSV) CH. 2
   • (C) CH. 22 - 25
   • (P) CH. 27 - 34
   • (LB) CH. 20, 23, 24
   • The World Wide Web: Internet Boomtown? Datamation. January 15, 1995.
   • 101 Best Net Bets. PC Computing. May 1995.

   9/17/96

2. Telecommunications: telecommunications technology, fundamentals of digital networks, LANs and WANs, brief history of the Internet, global information infrastructure.
   • (KSV) CH. 1
   • (C) CH. 2 - 6
   • (KW) CH. 1 - 4
   • Udell, J., "Computer Telephony," Byte, July 1994, pp. 80-90.
   • Verity, J. W. " The Information Revolution," Business Week, 1994.
3. IT&TC Industries: Rapidly evolving markets merge content providers, communication providers and consumer electronics manufacturers.
   • "Your PC is Ringing", PC Computing, May 1995, 150 - 164.
   • "Datamation 100." June 15, 1995 ( Users give HP top rating).
   • InformationWeek, "Top 50 Software Vendors," May 22, 1995.

   9/24/96

4. Basic Internet Services: electronic mail, file transfer (FTP), remote login (TELNET), bulletin boards and network news.
   • (KSV) CH. 4
   • (C) CH. 18 - 21
   • (P) CH. 1 - 11, 13 - 15, 19, 24 - 26
   • (LB) CH. 12

   10/1/96

5. Financial and Accounting Resources on the Internet: Rutgers Accounting Web (RAW), financial statements (EDGAR), financial markets and investment information, government resources.
   • (KSV) CH. 3, 6
   • "The Future of E-Money." Business Week. June 12, 1995.
   • "How Investors Can Use Internet," Fortune, April 17, 1995, pp.154-158.
   • "Online Investing," Business Week, June 5, 1995, pp.64-78.

   10/8/96

6. Web Publishing - the Hypertext Revolution: hypertext markup language (HTML), creating your own WWW home page, multimedia on the Web (images, sound, and video).
   • (KSV) CH. 5
   • (P) CH. 35 - 37
   • (LB) CH. 22
   • Bookstore Sets Up Electronic Store on the Internet. Data Based Advisor. February 1995.
   • Build Your Own WWW Server, BYTE, April 1995, pp.83-88.

   10/15/96

7. Business in the Cyberspace I: advertising and selling, Internet cybermalls, being a consumer on the Net.
   • Hand in your site business plan (G). Your group is to develop an idea for an Internet-based business. This part of the assignment will describe the business lay-out its main pages and describe its products and markets.
   • (KSV) CH. 8, 10
   • (KW) CH. 6 - 8, 13
   • (LB) CH. 4
   • "Cyberspace," Business Week, Feb. 27, 1995.,pp. 76-86.
   • Elmer-Dewitt, "Battle for the Soul of the Internet," Time, July 25, 1994.
   • Kantor, "Making Online Services Work for You," PC Magazine, March 15, 1994.
   • Weston, "Five Ways to Do Business on the Internet", Inc. Technology, No. 3 , 1995, pp.75-77.

   10/22/96

8. How the Internet Works: packet switching, routers, Internet protocol (IP), transmission control protocol (TCP), IP addresses and domain names.
   • (C) CH. 11 - 14
   • (P) CH. 12
   • (KW) CH. 17
   • (LB) CH. 8, 13

   10/29/96

9. Internet Security: encryption and privacy, viruses and worms, firewalls.
   • (KSV) CH. 7
   • (P) CH. 41 - 43
   • (KW) CH. 5
   • (LB) CH. 5
   • Brian, "Firewalls for Sale," Byte, April 1995, pp. 99-104.

   11/5/96

10. Intelligent Agents: definition and technology, commercial products, the "softbot".
    • (KW) CH. 16
    • "Conversations with Marvin Minsky about agents", Communications of the ACM, July 1994, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 23-29.
    • Maes, P.,"Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload," Communications of the ACM, July 1994, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 31-40.
    • Norman, D.,"How Might People Interact with Agents," Communications of the ACM, July 1994, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 31-40.
11. Data Mining in the Cyberspace: databases, learning machines, adaptive information systems, patterns and knowledge extraction.
    • "Data Mining (The DataGold Rush, A Data Miner's Tool, Data-Mining Dynamite), BYTE, October 1995, pp. 81-104.
12. Cooperative Ubiquitous Computing: tabs, panels, and whiteboards.
    • "Wonder Chips", Business Week, July 4, 1994, Page 86-92.
    • TBA

    11/12/96

13. Multimedia and MBone: the Internet multicasting backbone, virtual reality, video teleconferencing and telepresence.
    • (KW) CH. 17 - 18

    11/19/96

14. Legal Problems of Cyberspace: copyright protection, freedom of expression, "adult entertainment".
    • (KSV) CH. 9
    • Kantor, "The Art of the Flame," Internet World, May 1995, pp.30-31.

    12/3/96

15. Business in the Cyberspace II: virtual corporation, networked corporation, the future of Internet business.
    • Hand in your site business plan (G), Part 2. This part of the project requires you to price out your Internet provisioning (machine, etc. or provisioning purchase), estimate the size of your markets, costs and revenues as well as provide the timing of your business.
    • (KW) CH. 9 - 11

    12/10/96

16. Project Presentations

    12/17/96

17. Final Exam

1. (KSV) Alexander Kogan, Ephraim F. Sudit, and Miklos A. Vasarhelyi. The Internet Guide for Accountants: A Living Book. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997 (ISBN 0-13-270968-6), to appear.
2. (C) D.E. Comer. The Internet Book: Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995 (ISBN 0-13-151565-9). http://www.prenhall.com/013/151563/15156-3.html
3. (KW) Ravi Kalakota and Andrew B. Whinston. Frontiers of Electronic Commerce. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996 (ISBN 0-201-84520-2). http://www.aw.com/cseng/authors/kalakota/front/front.html
4. (P) M.A. Pike. Using the Internet with Windows 95. Special Edition. QUE Books, 1996 (ISBN 0-7897-0646-6). http://www.mcp.com/305105001587496/cgi-bin/bag?isbn=0-7897-0646-6&last=/bookstore

1. R.Resnick and D.Taylor. The Internet Business Guide: Riding the Information Superhighway to Profit. Sams Publishing, 1994 (ISBN 0-672-30530-5).
2. (LB) J.R.Levine & C.Baroudi. Internet Secrets. IDG Books Worldwide, Foster City, CA, 1995 (ISBN 1-56884-452-2).

Corporate Financial Information on the Internet.
Making Money on the Internet.
Economics of the Internet.
Legal Pitfalls of the Internet.

This course will require students to: 1) surf the Internet for relevant materials, 2) write a report on the path and discovery, 3) write a position paper on a major course topic and base it on Internet findings and class reading assignments, 4) give a short presentation in class, 5) create a home page on the Web. All assignments, papers, and communications should be submitted by e-mail. All students should keep an electronic diary logging their interactions with the Internet, including objectives of search and places visited. Upon warning, classes may be held in the Cyberspace. All students must have a Windows PC and at least a 14.4 modem. Basic knowledge of MS Windows is required.

Dial-up connection of home PCs to the Internet through Rutgers modems is supported by RUCS (Rutgers University Computing Services). The distribution package is called RUNfree for Windows. For software, support, and instructions check the RUNfree homepage at: