Dear John

There are some details of a course I taught until reecently which might
give you an intreating perspective to cover in "meaning of information
technology" at
Www.paych.lse.ac.uk/~patrick/ps445

Happy explorations

Patrick

On 14/08/2012 15:28, "august" <august@???> wrote:

>
>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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