Course Schedule: Spring 2000Undergraduate CoursesInstructor(s): David Messerschmitt
Time: MWF 1-2
Location: 159 Mulford Hall
CCN: 42703
Introduction to applications of networked computers, especially social, educational, and information management. Understanding of the networking, computing, and software infrastructures enabling and constraining these networked applications, with the goal of empowering the student to use these technologies effectively in their personal and professional life. Related policy, legal, economic, and industry issues. Instructor(s): Mary Kay Duggan
Time: MWF 2-3
Location: 156 Dwinelle Hall
CCN: 42706
Three hours lecture per week. Focuses on European Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, and in the western United States, Asian Americans and Chicano/Latinos. The course explores the nature of oral and print societies as found in the focus cultures to assess the impact of the dominant print culture on oral cultures. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement. This course uses contemporary print material to understand the interaction of print and oral cultures in America. It examines the role of print in shaping political policy, ethnic and religious identity, distribution of resources, and resolution of conflict. Topics include the definition and interaction of orality and print, Native American interaction with colonialist empires, African American and education, the bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin, the newspaper of many cultures in West, the power of the image from woodcut to photograph to poster, the centralization of control of publishing in the emerging cities, and the role of print in emerging law on Chinese citizenship in the late nineteenth century. Graduate CoursesInstructor(s):
Time: TTh 9:30-11
Location: 202 South Hall
CCN: 42709
Three hours of lecture per week. Project planning and scheduling, process design, project management and coordination. Analysis of information needs, specification of system requirements, analysis of alternatives, design of alternatives. Quantitative methods and tools for analysis and decision making. Document management. Design, implementation, and evaluation of a project. This is the fourth required course for all Masters students in the School of Information Management and Systems, and it is open for enrollment only to students in the School. The course provides a general introduction to information and knowledge management in organizations, including:
One primary objective of the course is for the student to conduct an analysis of an information system and, if appropriate, design an alternate system. This system may be a manual procedure in need of improvement, a manual system that needs automation, automated procedures that need improvement, or an analytic study of an existing system. This analysis is due at the last lecture of the course and will be accompanied by a class presentation of its results. Projects are to be done on an individual basis. The course provides the student with the tools to conduct the study. Among the topics covered in the lectures and readings are the process of identifying and selecting projects, project initiation, systems requirements determination, system data collection, interviewing and questionnaire development, workflow analysis and design, data flow diagramming, statistical and cost analysis, forms and screen design, and the implementation and evaluation of systems. It is up to the student to find a project for the course. The instructors will provide guidance. The break between semesters is a good time to begin looking for organizations and/or systems that need analysis and/or improvement. Knowledge management topics include observing and analyzing organizational dynamics in working groups, in presentations and meetings, personnel actions and budget development, managing change and the role of institutional cultures in implementing technical change to increase productivity. Part of the course is devoted to the use of Microsoft Project, a project management system. The student will use Project to develop a schedule of the activities for the project and will supply updated schedules to the instructors during the semester. In addition to the analysis/design project, there will be additional assignments in specific management areas and to develop skills on the topics covered in the lectures. Among these assignments are the use of statistical analysis tools, spreadsheet programs, and data-flow modeling tools. MOT Related Course
Instructor(s): Nancy Van House
Time: MW 2-3:30
Location: 205 South Hall
CCN: 42712
This course addresses concepts and methods of user experience research. The emphasis will be on methods of collecting and interpreting many kinds of data about real-world user activities and practices and translating them into design decisions. The course includes hands-on practice with a number of major user experience research methods, including heuristic evaluation; observation; interviews, surveys and focus groups. The emphasis will be on naturalistic/ethnographic (qualitative) methods, but we will also address major quantitative methods. Finally, we will discuss methods of bringing user experience research into the design process. This course is appropriate for both 1st and 2nd-year MIMS students, and for students from other departments with a strong interest in user experience research, with the instructor's permission. Students will complete at least one major group project related to needs assessment and evaluation. Second-year MIMS students may use this project to meet their capping project requirement. Instructor(s): Yale Braunstein
Time: TTh 3:30-5
Location: 205 South Hall
CCN: 42715
Three hours of lecture per week. This course provides both a general introduction to management and management science with a focus on issues in complex information organizations. The course is useful to those who will work in organizations and will be involved in the analysis, design, or delivery of information services and systems, especially those in management positions. The specific topics are chosen to complement the topics in INFOSYS 208. The course is designed for students who do not have a degree in management. One focus is on both the internal and external issues and practices of management. Internal issues include organizational behavior, organizational theory, personnel, budgeting, and planning. External issues include organizational environments, politics, marketing, funding sources, and strategic planning. The other focus is on management science tools, such as optimization, game theory, and queuing theory (the study of throughput and waiting lines). Assignments will be on both an individual and group basis. MOT Core Course
Instructor(s):
Time: MW 9:30-11
Location: 202 South Hall
CCN: 42718
Factors strongly impacting the success of new computing and communications products and services (based on underlying technologies such as electronics and software) in commercial applications. Technology trends and limits, economics, standardization, intellectual property, government policy, and industrial organizations. Strategies to manage the design and marketing of successful products and services. MOT Related Course
Instructor(s): Pamela Samuelson
Time: TTh 12:30-2
Location: 110 South Hall
CCN: 42721
Three hours of lecture per week. This course will provide an overview of the intellectual property laws with which information managers need to be familiar. It will start with a consideration of trade secrecy law that information technology and other firms routinely use to protect commercially valuable information. It will then consider the role that copyright law plays in the legal protection of information products and services. Although patents for many years rarely were available to protect information innovations, patents on such innovations are becoming increasingly common. As a consequence, it is necessary to consider standards of patentability and the scope of protection that patent affords to innovators. Trademark law allows firms to protect words or symbols used to identify their goods or services and to distinguish them from the goods and services of other producers. It offers significant protection to producers of information products and services. Because so many firms license intellectual property rights, some coverage of licensing issues is also important. Much of the course will concern the legal protection of computer software and databases, but it will also explore some intellectual property issues arising in cyberspace. Instructor(s): Ray Larson
Time: MW 11-12:30
Location: 202 South Hall
CCN: 42724
Three hours of lecture per week. Theories and methods for searching and retrieval of text and bibliographic information. Analysis of relevance and utility. Statistical and linguistic methods for automatic indexing and classification. Boolean and probabilistic approaches to indexing, query formulation, and output ranking. Filtering methods. Measures of retrieval effectiveness and retrieval experimentation methodology. This course is intended to prepare you to understand the underlying theories and algorithms of advanced information retrieval systems and to introduce the methodology for the design and evaluation of information retrieval systems. The course will introduce you to the major types of information retrieval systems, the different theoretical foundations underlying these systems, and the methods and measures that can be used to evaluate them. The course will focus on the both the theoretical aspects of information retrieval design and evaluation, and will also consider the practical aspects of how these theories have been implemented in actual systems. These topics will be examined through readings, discussion, hands-on experience using various information retrieval systems, and through participation in evaluation of different retrieval algorithms on various test collections. The prerequisite for the course is INFOSYS 202, though this may be waived with the consent of instructor. A good familiarity with computers and programming is highly desirable. Instructor(s): Michael Buckland
Time: MW 9-10:30
Location: 107 South Hall
CCN: 42727
Standards and practices for organization and description of bibliographic, textual, and non-textual collections. Design, selection, maintenance and evaluation of cataloging, classification, indexing and thesaurus systems for specific settings. Codes, formats, and standards for representation and transfer of data. A continuation and expansion of the introductory core course 202. Organization of Information with emphasis on organization of and access to textual and non-textual materials in paper-based and digital collections. A project-oriented course designed to provide theoretical foundations for current practices and for exploration of new methodologies for effective retrieval of information content. Emphasis on implementation and evaluation of organization and retrieval systems. Designed for Master's students expecting to manage paper-based and digital collections of information resources. Includes application of standard cataloging rules and indexing methods. Outline of Topics
Course requirements will include: readings on theoretical framework and evaluation criteria for development of collections management systems; assignments in the form of projects that require use and evaluation of a variety of organizational schemes and systems; evaluative papers that require analysis of the readings, combined with evaluation of existing systems; a final project that replaces a final examination and requires design, implementation and evaluation of an organizational system for a given setting. MOT Related Course
Instructor(s): John Chuang
Time: TTh 11-12:30
Location: 202 South Hall
CCN: 42733
This course offers a multidisciplinary inquiry into the technology, business, economics, and public-policy of computer networks and distributed applications. We will cover the technical foundations of computer networks, including: Internet architecture, network technologies and protocols (e.g., 802.*, TCP/IP, HTTP), routing algorithms and policies, network applications (e.g., p2p overlays, VoIP), emerging network technologies, and network security. Tightly integrated will be coverage on the business, economics and policy of networking, including: economic characteristics of networks, network industry structure and ISP competition, wireless spectrum auction, network neutrality, and incentive-centered design of networks and applications. Instructor(s): Michael Buckland
Time: F 9-12
Location: 107 South Hall
CCN: 42734
Three hours of lecture per week. General introduction to the organization and administration of library services and their place in the institutions and communities they serve. Problems and practices with respect to governance, functions, collections, and building. Management functions as applicable: planning, organizing, innovation, staffing, budgeting, controlling. Technological change. Outline of Topics:
The course will include lectures, guest speakers, videos, case studies, field trips, and class discussion. Course requirements will include: analysis of a manager's roles; review of an unfamiliar library; budget exercise; planning exercise ("critical path analysis"); accounting exercise; position description; job announcement; case studies; a specialized small group or individual project that requires recommendations for change in a library service. This course is designed for first or second year students in the Master's in Information Management & Systems program, but open to Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate students in any majors. Second-year MIMS students may use this project for the required Final Project of the Master's' degree. Special Topics CoursesInstructor(s): Hal Varian Sally Thomas
Time: Th 3-5
Location: 202 South Hall
CCN: 42883
This seminar explores issues of design and structure of Web-based resources. The course has been developed to complement the paid work of SIMS students building Web-based support for large undergraduate courses (see http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/web-design/webdesign-about.html). Examples from students' on-the-job experience fuel discussion of longevity issues, issues of dealing with clients, and consideration of more advanced Web tools (such as database back-ends, multimedia, virtual environments, etc.). Enrollment is limited. Instructor(s):
Time: Tu 4-6
Location: 110 South Hall
CCN: 42889
Computing and information technology are dramatically changing peoples' lives, and more change is to come. The promise of ubiquitous computing is that people will be assisted by computers in many new ways, and will interact with them naturally, on the human's rather than the machine's terms. Computing research today is about new ways of connecting people to computers, people to knowledge, people to the physical world, and people to people. Computers must function in human contexts, rather than requiring people to learn and follow the machine's rules. That requires a thorough understanding of those contexts. HCC is an interdisciplinary program involving sociology, psychology, and education theory as well as computer science and engineering. Its goal is to study social contexts and human behavior, to design and evaluate computer applications in those contexts. HCC can be viewed as an evolution of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), but represents a shift in perspective. HCC is not an area within computer science, but represents a theme that impacts all areas of CS. It coincides with the transition of computing from tools built for and by professionals to tools for everyday tasks for "every citizen". Understanding the complexity and diversity of human behavior will be an important first step in building the future "killer applications" of computing. The course includes talks by leading researchers from on and off campus on HCC-related topics. The talks are about current research, but are colloquium-style and accessible to a broad audience. The goal is to allow graduate students from one of the participating areas to undertake research that cuts across the HCC areas, or to partner with students from other HCC fields. Seminar CoursesInstructor(s):
Time: W 10:30-12:30
Location: 107 South Hall
CCN: 42739
The purpose of this seminar is to explore the domains of social analysis now emerging, and to address issues surrounding information, knowledge, and information technology. We look at issues of self, community, and organizations; social and organizational processes; approaches to social theory useful in understanding information and it; and anything else that we find relevant. We read from such areas as knowledge management, CSCW (computer supported cooperative work), studies of work practice, science studies, legal analysis, and social informatics, to name just a few. Some unifying themes are: what assumptions about information and knowledge are embedded in these literatures? What are the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches in thinking about information practices, individual and collective, and the design of information systems? How can we better bring together social sciences approaches and key issues in information and information technology? Suitable for Ph.D. students in SIMS and other disciplines interested in information and IT, and interested MIMS students. This is a very exploratory seminar, the content of which will be shaped in part by the interests of the participants. Instructor(s):
Time: F 3-5
Location: 107 South Hall
CCN: 42742
The seminar explores selected advanced topics relating to 'digital libraries' with special emphasis on:
It is expected that these issues will require attention to a number of questions about the nature of information retrieval processes, the feasibility of not-yet-conventional techniques, techniques of making different systems work together, social impact, and the reconsideration of past practices. More generally, the seminar is intended to provide a forum for advanced students in the School. Anyone interested in these topics is welcome to join in -- and to talk about their own work. This is a continuation of the previous Lynch/Buckland seminars. |
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