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Who
could have predicted...?
Babbage,
and the Difference Engine (link to Powerhouse Museum)
Bletchley Park,
Enigma, and Colossus
Alan Turing
Rear
Admiral Grace Hopper, USNR and the first computer "Bug"
ASCII Character Set
Input,
Process, Output
Objects
on the Screen (Video)
Icons,
Folders, Objects
What is a Folder or Directory?
USB, Parallel and Serial Cables
It's all done with
magnets (an antique core memory)
Optical Storage Media – CDROM
Pictures
Picture Sizes
Binary, Decimal, and Hexadecimal
Number Systems
Universal Resource Locators (URLs)
Discussion: whois and NICs
Figuring out your IP Address
Octal, Decimal, Hex
simple
C program (1980s).
Stats simple Psion
OPL program (1980s).
Students simple
Geac ZOPL program (1980s).
Plain vanilla FTP You may need this if your normal ftp software
is damaged. Examples
Remote
access to UB's network
Activating your
personal Web space
Forwarding
your UB e-mail to another account
Validating a Web page
Good example of an
image map
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Bibliographic Data
MARC,
SGML, AACR2R...
Cataloguing
and Classification Challenges for Automated Systems Designers MARC, SGML, AACR2R.
Dublin
Core Metadata (from OCLC)
Resource
Description Framework (from W3.org)
September 2003 RDF
Working Draft
See
especially the RDF Semantics glossary section
Librarians
Index to the Internet (lii.org)
Z39.50 - Remote Access to Library Catalogues
Circulation before computers -
McBee Cards
Circulation Systems -
Patron Information
Circulation Systems - Barcodes
Circulation Systems - RFID
Bibliotheca
RFID systems
3M
RFID systems
Security Issues: The classic Worm case.
Page, Bob. A Report on the
Internet Worm.University of Lowell. Computer
Science Department.
Security
Issures: Password
Protection 101, from the National Infrastructure Protection Center.
Security
Issues: Recovering from intrusions.
Library Automation
Vendors
Purchasing systems - some terms
Purchasing
systems – mock Request for Proposal (RFP)
RFP Assignment - FAQ
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