CS 442: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
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Outside lectures:
Information mentioned in news:
The National Information Infrastructure (NII) initiative reportedly
enjoys over one billion dollars in funding per year, and the concept
of an information superhighway connecting universities, businesses,
libraries, and governments is taking shape. This will soon create a
marketplace for a new kind of systems specialist with an interdisciplinary
background in networking, distributed systems, databases, and information
retrieval. New expertise is needed to help information providers connect
to the superhighway to design and maintain new services on the network,
and to extend the network itself.
The 442 course focuses on a practical hands-on approach.
Extensive laboratory experience will be carried out by engaging
in practical, realistic implementation projects.
COURSE OUTLINE:
The course involves laboratory
projects, which provides a first-hand account of issues relating
to networking and multimedia. Topics covered include:
- Networking technology on all layers of the ISO hierarchy.
Broadband networking and wireless communication networks.
- Multimedia services: Video and audio on demand. Multicasting and
teleconferencing on the network.
- Roadmap of the Internet. Directory Systems: X.500, DNS, Gopher,
WWW, and Mosaic.
- Wireless information services.
Textbooks:
- UNIX Network Programming, W. Richard Stevens, Prentice Hall,
1990, (main lecture);
- TCP/IP Illustrated, vol. 1, W. Richard
Stevens, Addison-Wesley, 1994, (recitation).
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