Information on the Internet Lab
Fall 2011 Version
This url is https://stewart.sdsu.edu/infolab/

Dr. Kris Stewart (stewart@sdsu.edu)
San Diego State Univeristy

upd: 29Dec2022 With the unprecedented growth of the Internet, I believe the most common "problems" are understanding a users' responsibility to the community of users and understanding how to deal with the overwhelming amount of information available. History of the Internet, from my person point of view, I was hired at SDSU, Fall 1984, worked with SDSC from Summer 1986 on.

How to keep yourself (and your friends, your parents?) safe, online is constantly changing. For example, at SDSU, Rohan Squirrel mail warning 05Feb08 Campus CIO Security Alert

technews.acm.org [Stewart's favorite technology news]

INFO-OVERLOAD

  1. How can a person find out about the availability of information on a particular topic?
  2. How do you access that information?
  3. Do you read the information right now, or store it to be read later?
  4. If you store the data, how will you categorize it so that it can be retrieved later?
  5. What are the various "kinds" of information? (different for each person)

Just because you "read it in the newspaper", does this make it true? (maybe, depends on the author [editor] and on the newspaper [IP name])

Most material available on the Internet is not "peer-reviewed" which implies there is no guarantee that the information is correct or valuable or worthwhile.

Since SDSU is a member of the Internet2 high-speed Internet network community, we have wide bandwidth connections to the global Internet. This is a valuable resource that each of us should utilize and respect. The Abilene_Network and Internet2 involved SDSU. In 2000, SDSU is on the 2000 Abilene Map, saved pdf 25Aug2000 from NOC Abilene Network Operations Center, Indiana University

San Diego State University has adopted a Computer Security Policy that each student should read. SDSU Computing Security Policy adopted 7 Nov 2000 by University Senate

This recalls the lessons from Journalism, to answer the questions

Who (Who first told you about the resource?)
What (What access mechanism: anonymous ftp, WWW, gopher, ...)
Where (Location is an IP address)
When (The dynamic nature of the Internet adds a "temporal" quality to information)
Why (Why did you think this link was worth saving? Why is this sourceinteresting?)

From your own point of view, how would you order the above topics in terms of importance?

Authorities for Computer Science students at San Diego State University:

  1. arweb.sdsu.edu/es/catalog/index.html SDSU General Catalog Note the disclaimer on the top of the page.
    The online SDSU catalog is the official publication for SDSU
  2. Computer Science Department home page
  3. ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, the Professional Society of Computer Science
  4. stewart.sdsu.edu/step/wayback_machine.html [Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman WayBack Machine by Kris Stewart]
  5. Technology News / Current Issue from ACM [useful, authoritative updates]
  6. SDSU student ACM Chapter
  7. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Professional Society of Engineers, including computational scientists.
  8. SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Professional Society for Applied Math, now looking to focus on computational sciences.
  9. The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis ( CAIDA) and the National Laboratory for Aplied Network Research ( NLANR) are highly recommended sources for information, tools and research projects/results on the Internet.
  10. SDSU Information Security Policy approved by the SDSU Senate Nov. 7, 2000. The computers and the network at SDSU are a community resource which must be respected by all users. Every user of this resource has a responsibilty to be considerate of other users.

History of the Internet, Computing and Supercomputing

Poster history of the Internet 1962-1992 [distributed at SC'97 in San Jose, found online in 2022 at CHM, the Computer History Museum in Si Valley]
National Science Foundation, NSF, Brief History of NSF and the Internet
Kris Stewart Personal Timeline of Technology 2000/2007 upd
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml Internet Society's History of the Internet
www.ornl.gov/timeline/index.html History of Supercomputing (Oak Ridge National Labs)
www.computerhistory.org
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 "The Computer Museum History Center is the world's authority on the history of computing technology. Our collection spans hardware, software, audio clips, films, documentation, etc." Alan AlanSHarrell@AlanSHarrell.net
Table to calculate transfer time based on file size and connection speed. Ed Center project by Jerry Kuzminsky
Internetology from the Network Startup Resource Center, U. Oregon
UC Berkeley Library "Finding Information on the Internet Tutorial"

Sources Available from San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC):

Online Histories of Technology - 2021

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century (What are your entries? What order?)
1. Electrification 2. Automobile 3. Airplane 4. Water Supply and Distribution 5. Electronics 6. Radio and Television 7. Agricultural Mechanization 8. Computers 9. Telephone 10. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration 11. Highways 12. Spacecraft 13. Internet 14. Imaging 15. Household Appliances 16. Health Technologies 17. Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies 18. Laser and Fiber Optics 19. Nuclear Technologies 20. High-performance Materials

Netiquette

The Usenet Newsgroup are archived at pit-manager.mit.edu, was rtfm.mit.edu.

Do you know what RTFM stands for?

http://pit-manager.mit.edu

Excellent Information Sources from the Scout Report

Weekly Scout Reports [on the web]
This is a nicely filtered overview of the activities each week that are accessible via the Internet. The focus is on educationally oriented topics, which is a very broad focus. It is also kept "timely".

Education Sources

library.sdsu.edu/ SDSU Library
Cause and Educom merged to become Educause
Transforming Education through Information Technology
Andy Carvin's EdWeb
Brought to you by CPB, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and CNIDR, the Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval.

Sources for Software (public-domain, free-ware, share-ware)

What is the difference?

SDSU Library supporting CS Computers & Society Research Papers

http://library.sdsu.edu/guides/sub.php?id=143