Lectures and Readings

In the following, I have indicated the major topics we will be discussing during the semester and included a preliminary list of readings associated with each topic. In general the readings listed should be completed in preparation for the class meeting under whose description they appear. Copies of the papers mentioned in this list will be made available to you before the related topic is discussed. Additional readings will be assigned during the semester (and this list will be updated to reflect those additions)).

Date	Topic	Readings
1. 9/10	Introduction: Why Digital?	"Audio Basics"
2. 9/15 - 9/17	HTML I: Philosophy, History and Syntax.	Berners-Lee, Tim, Robert Cailliau, Arir Luotonen, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, and Arthur Secret, "The World Wide Web", Communications of the ACM", Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 76-82 Aronson and Lowery, pp. 1-51. Engelfriet, Arnoud; Web Design Group, Wilbur -- HTML 3.2.
3. 9/22	Digital Image Encoding.	Henshall, John, "Pixels - The Building Blocks of Digital Images" Lynch, Patrick and Sarah Horton, "Yale CAIM Web Style Guide" (Just read the first three sections pointed to by the page entitled "Web Graphics".)
4. 9/24	Digital Transmission: Media, Encoding, Multiplexing	Brian Brown, "Communications Media" "How Fiber Works"
5. 9/29	Interactive Content: A Sample Java Applet	handouts
5.5 10/1 - 10/6	Java II: Applet Structure + Basic Graphics	handouts
6. 10/8 & 10/15	Multi-machine Communications: LANs and WANs.	Metcalfe, Robert, M. and Boggs, David R., "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 10:7, July 1976, pp. 395 - 404. (This is the "original" paper by the designers of the first Ethernet that I mentioned in class. I don't expect you to digest all of this, but up to about §3.5 should make sense.) Spurgeon, Charles, "Quick Reference Guides to 10-Mbps Ethernet" (read up to and including §1.6: Ethernet Frame and Ethernet Addresses). Sheffer, Uri., et. al., "Token Ring" (read up to "Token Format") Ross, Keith W., "The Internet: Technologies, Protocols and Commerce" (read sections 2.1, 2.3 and skim 3.1)
7. 10/13	HTML II: Text, Lists and Tables.	Aronson and Lowery, Ch. 3.
8. 10/22	The internet Concept.
9. 10/27	HTML III: Using Graphics	Aronson and Lowery, Ch. 6.
10/27	Midterm Review Session (9:30 - ?, Bio 111)
10/29	MIDTERM EXAM	sample midterm from Fall 1997 solutions to midterm from Fall 1997
10. 11/3	Java III: GUI Components and Control Structures.	handouts
11. 11/5	Basics of the Internet.	Hedrick, Charles L., "Introduction to the Internet Protocols" (For now, read up to but not including Section 3.1 and then skip forward to read Section 6. An alternate source for this document is here.) Krol, E., "What is the Internet?" Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, and Stephen Wolff, "A Brief History of the Internet"
12. 11/10	HTML IV: Forms and CGI scripts	Aronson and Lowery, pp. 132-147.
13. 11/12	UDP, TCP + Internet Application Protocols: Mail, Telnet,....
13. 11/17	Java IV: Iteration and Animation Structures.	handouts
15. 11/19 - 11/24	Data Delivery Obstacles: Errors and Retransmission
16. 12/1 - 12/3	Cryptographic Techniques.	Zimmermann, Philip R., "Cryptography for the Internet", Scientific American, Vol. 279, No. 4, October 1998, pp. 110-115. Diffie, Whitfield and Martin, E. Hellman, "New Directions in Cryptography", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 22, pp. 644-654, Nov. 1976. Netsurfer Focus on Cryptography and Privacy Microsoft, Inc., What is a Cookie?
17. 12/8-12/10	Network Security and Privacy.	Spafford, Eugene H., "The Internet Worm Incident", Technical Report CSD-TR-933, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 1991. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 to read this document. It can be found on the WSO server. You need only read up to but not including the section entitled "Step-by-step description".) Festa, Paul, "IE 4 has hyperlink bug"
18. Next Year?	Network Routing	Hsieh, Wen-Ning and Israel Gitman, "Routing Strategies in Computer Networks", IEEE Computer Networks, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 46-56, June 1984.