This schedule is subject to changes; please check every week.
Date	Topic covered	Assignments
24-Aug	Introduction to Information	Syllabus, discussion of class
	Class details	Ch 1, "Information," Robert Allen
	Exercise 1 assigned	Wikipedia definition of "Informatics"
		Wikipedia defintion of "Information Science"
		Wikipedia defintion of "Information Systems"
		Wikipedia definition of "Information"
		Wikipedia defintion of "Science"
		Wikipedia article on "Theory"
		"How Much Information," http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#summary
31-Aug	Knowledge Representation	Ch 2, "Knowledge Representation," Robert Allen
	Exercise 1 due	"Classification and Categorization: a Difference that Makes a Difference," Elin Jacob
		"The Vocabulary Problem in Human-System Communication," G.W. Furnas, et al.
		"The Montagues and the Capulets," Carloe Goble, Chris Wroe
		"Disambiguating Authors in Academic Publications using Random Forests," Pucktada Treeratpituk, C.Lee Giles
		Research presentation by IST graduate student Puck Treeratpituk
7-Sep	Labor Day - no classes
14-Sep	Documents and Descriptions	Ch 3, "Documents and Descriptions," Robert Allen
		"Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata," Adam Mathes
		"Which Semantic Web?" C.C. Marshall, F.M. Shipman
		TableSeer: Automatic Table Metadata Extraction and Searching in Digital Libaries, Ying Liu, et al.
		Research presentation by IST graduate student, Dr. Ying Liu
21-Sep	Tasks and Activities	Ch 4, "Tasks and Activities," Robert Allen
		"Relevance: A Review of and a Framework for the Thinking of the Notion in Information Science," T. Saracevic
		"Integrating Development of Task and Object Models," M. Rosson
		"Using Reflective Learning to Master Opponent Strategy in a Competitive Environment," M.A. Cohen, F.E. Ritter, S.R. Hayes
		Research presentation by former IST graduate student Professor Mark Cohen
28-Sep	Human Cognition and User Interaction	Ch 5, "Human Cognition and HCI," Robert Allen
		"Cognitive Engineering - Cognitive Science," D. Norman
		"Users are individuals: - individualizing user models," E. Rich
		"Playing with Information: How End Users Think About and Integrate Dynamic Data," N. Zang, M.B. Rosson
		Research presentation by Bernie Zang, IST graduate student
5-Oct	Social Interaction	Ch 6, "Social Interaction and Education," Robert Allen
		"Computers that recognize and respond to user emotion: theoretical and practical implications," R. Picard, J. Klein
		"Indentity and search in social networks," D.J. Watts, P.S. Dodds, M.E.J. Newman
		"Collaborative Information Seeking: A Field Study of a Multidisciplinary Patient Care Team," M. Reddy, P.R. Spence
		Research presentation by Barbara Spence, IST graduate student
12-Oct	Information Services	Ch 8, "Services," Robert Allen
		"No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering," F.P. Brooks, Jr.
		"Review: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations and Research Issues," M. Alavi, D.E. Leidne
		"A Comparative Analysis of RFID Adoption in Retail and Manufacturing Sectors," M. Bhattacharya, C-H. Chu, T. Mullen
		Research presentation by Mithu Bhattacharya, IST graduate student
19-Oct	Social Informatics	Ch 9, "Society and Economics," Robert Allen
		"IT Doesn't Matter," N.G. Carr
		"The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond," J. Lerner, J. Tirole
		"From 'Methods Fragments' to 'Knowledge Units': Towards a Fine-Granular Approach," A. Karunakaran, S. Purao, B. Cameron
		Research presentation by IST graduate student Arvind Karunakaran
	5 minute presentations
	Manasa Basavaraju
	Lee Erickson
	Smitha Sundareswaran
	Ryan Kaulakis
	Yan Cao
	Zhe Liu
26-Oct	Scholarship, Science, and Domain Informatics	"The Data Deluge: An e-Science Perspective," T. Hey, A. Trefethen
		"Who gets acknowledged: Measuring scientific contributions thourgh automatic acknowledgement indexing," C.L. Giles, I.G. Councill
		"Scientometrics: State of the Art," A.F.J. Van Raan
		"Enhancing Information Scent: Identifying and Recommending Quality Tags," S. Zhang, U. Farooq, J.M. Carroll
		Research presentation by IST graduate student Shaoke Zhang
	5 minute presentations
	Eric McMillan
	Yu Zhang
	Jonathan Becker
	Kartikeya Bajpai
	Jerry Lothian
	Changkun Zhao
2-Nov	Text Processing	Ch 11, "Text Processing," Robert Allen
		"The PagerRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web," L. Page, S. Brin, R. Motwani, T. Winograd
		"Seeing the Whole in Parts: Text Summarization for Web Browsing on Handheld Devices," O. Buyukkokten, H. Garcia-Molina, A. Paepcke
		"Twitter Power: Tweets as Electronic Word of Mouth," B.J. Jansen, M. Zhang, K. Sobel, A. Chowdury
		Research presentation by IST graduate student, Mimi Zhang
9-Nov	Integrative Theory and Applications	"Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience," P.R. Thagard
		"Why Machine Ethics," C. Allen, W. Wallach, I. Smit
		"Competing Dichotomies in IS Research and Possible Strategies for Resolution," B. Fitzgerald
		"A Formal Model for Emerging Coalitions under Network Influence in Humanitarian Relief Coordination," Kang Zhao, et.al.
		"Ontological Complexity and Human Culture," David Saab, Fred Fonseca
		Research presentation by David Saab, IST graduate student
		Research presentation by Kang Zhao, IST graduate student
16-Nov	Student Presentations
	Exercise 2 & Participation Assigned
	Eric McMillan
	Jonathan Becker
	Yan Cao
	Yu Zhang
23-Nov	Thanksgiving Holiday
30-Nov	Student Presentations
	Karitekya Bajpai
	Changkun Zhao
	Lee Erickson
	Smitha Sundareswaran
7-Dec	Student Presentatins
	Zhe Liu
	Jeremy Lothian
	Manasa Basavaraju
	Ryan Kaulakis
14-Dec	Exam Week - No Assignments
	Research papers due