Articles

You will need to write summaries of two assigned articles each week. Each summary should be at least 200 words, or about one full double-spaced page, and will be worth 10 points. You do not need to apply APA format to these summaries, nor do you need to attach a cover page, but you will lose points for errors in spelling and grammar. Your summary should identify the themes of the article, and include your thoughts, opinions and experience relative to those themes.

Grading Rubric:

Insights and ideas that are germane to the assignment	Logic of organization and use of prescribed formats	Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are correct	Citations given for source material
5 points	2 points	2 points	1 point

Some weeks will have additional articles posted under the heading "Optional." These are articles that I think you'll find interesting, and that are relevant to our in-class discussions, but you are not required to read them or to turn in summaries.

• "The End of the Job."
• "The Future of Paper - No Longer Stuck in PARC."

LP 2. Leveraging People and Technology.

• "Organizational Memory Management: Technological and Research Issues."
• "ATM Results Unproven." 

Optional Reading (No Summary Required)

• "Massively distributed collaboration."
  A description of a new phenomenon which has been enabled by a convergence of information technologies.
• "The Book Stops Here."
  A well-written article about Wikipedia and massively distributed collaboration from Wired Magazine.
• "I make $1.45 a week and I love it"
  An article about Turking from Salon

LP 3. Usability.

• "Designing Effective Training Through the Technological Life Cycle."
• "Not Just Usability Testing: Remembering and Applying Non-usability Testing Methods for Learning How Web Sites Function."

Optional Reading (No Summary Required)

• "One Laptop Per Child."
• Converging Technologies Report
• HP's Memory Spot To Bring Brains To Everyday Objects
   

LP 4. Networks.

• "PC Servers' Network Role is Evolving."
• "On the Meaning of Networks."

Optional Reading (No Summary Required)

• Mount Blogmore
• N2TEC Website

LP 5. The Internet.

• "The Guy Who Did the WWW Thing at the Place Where He Did It."
  Note:  There is a repeated error in this article: "GERN" should be "CERN."
• "Goodbye Malthus, Hello Metcalfe."

Optional Reading (No Summary Required)

• Wikipedia: PageRank
• Google's unknown artist has huge following
• Web firms criticized over China
• Kazaa Settlement (Rapid City Journal, 28 July 06)

LP 6. Information Security.

• "Outsourcing: Its Benefits, Drawbacks and Other Related Issues."
• "The Threat Within."

Optional Reading (No Summary Required)

• "Covering Your Tracks In an Online World Takes a Few Tricks."
• “When bad things happen to good companies.” Hughes, Mike. Accountancy Ireland, October 2005.
• “Playing Nice With Physical Security.” Thurman, Mathias. Computerworld, October 3, 2005.
• "Social Engineering, the USB Way."
  This is a funny story written by a "white hat," in which he describes an attack made on a credit union that had hired his team to test their security.
• "FBI Recovers Stolen VA Laptop."
• "Learning to hack for all the right reasons." Marketplace, July 10, 2006.
  (Read) (Listen)
• Wikipedia: Cryptography Explanation
• CompTIA Security+ Website (Certification for Information Security)
• Sentry Insurance Customer Data Theft
• Consumer Reports' "State of the Net" Survey

LP 7. Technology Life Cycles.

• "How Unified Communications Will Affect Enterprise IT."
• "Change Management."

Optional Reading (No Summary Required)

• Wikipedia: Quantum Computing (Note that this is closely tied to the research proposed for the Homestake Underground Laboratory)

LP 8. Project Management.

• "Time is Money."
• "More on Standards-Based IT Consulting."

Optional Reading (No Summary Required)

• The Art of the Perfect Voicemail

LP 9. Organizational Structures.

• "Little is New Under the Sun But ..."
• "How Mature Is Your Data Management Environment?"

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