John,

Good luck with the course! Looks like a great reading list and should
be interesting and fun.

I'm surprised that with your engineering background you didn't include
"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" by Shannon. ..Or anything on
general information theory by Shannon and Weaver.

Seems like any course on "information" should proly at least
superficially cover the basic mathematical concepts and definitions
(such as source coding and stochastic signals) ...which are
counter-intuitive and almost at direct odds with the lay-man's
definition of information.

-august.


> Say bricos -- I want to put a call out for texts that any of you might
> consider indispensable for a course falling under the title "Meaning of
> Information Technology" -- I was asked to teach this, and although there
> is a general framework/syllabus from previous teachers, I figured I
> would query this august grouping of folks first to see what they might
> suggest. I've started a Zotero sub-library
> https://www.zotero.org/jhopkins/items/collectionKey/2IJFXETW (just now
> uploading the bulk of what I have already)... The general attributes
> about the course can be found at http://tam.colorado.edu/teaching.php --
> I will NOT be making powerpoints, but instead will be facilitating
> knowledge-building in a variety of non-standard ways (& dealing with 40
> students!). Any input is welcome! (Rob -- what's the crucial IOT text
> (or two)?)
>
> cheers,
> John
>
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