| Session/Date | Topics, Readings |
| S15: 10/26/99 | The Digital Economy 1: The retail e-commerce value chain (brief) Recommended: Doing business in the wired World (pp.56-59) |
| S16: 10/28/99 | The Digital Economy 2: Web music -- Technology issues, intermediaries, distribution channels Required: Music on the Web |
| S17: 11/02/99 | The Digital Economy 3: Disintermediation on the web, technology standards and increasing returns, music as an information good. Required: Music on the Web |
| S18: 11/04/99 | The Digital Economy 4: The e-commerce value chain -- Search and valuation. Required: The auction economy Required: Buyer's Market (not online yet) |
| S19: 11/09/99 | The Digital Economy 5: Valuation (continued), logistics and delivery systems Required: Can you sell groceries like books? Required: Going postal |
| S20: 11/11/99 | The Digital Economy 6: Digital cash, payment methods on the WWW Required: Digital Cash and Monetary Freedom |
| S21: 11/16/99 | The Digital Economy 7: Encryption and Information Security Required: An Introduction to Information Security (sections 1 to 3) |
| S22: 11/18/99 | Business Models in Technology 1: Network goods, increasing returns and technological lock-in Required: Increasing returns and the two worlds of business Recommended: Brian Arthur on his theories(sections 1 and 2) |
| S23: 11/23/99 | Business Models in Technology 2: More on increasing returns, the Microsoft antitrust case Required: Increasing returns and the two worlds of business Recommended: The trials of Netscape |
| S24: 11/30/99 | Business Models in Technology 3: Sustainable competitive advantage, Internet patents, Priceline.com and Microsoft. Required: The trouble with Internet patents Required: A Net monopoly no longer |
| S25: 12/02/99 | Current Topics: The impact of the web on retail finance and investment banking. Required: A nation of traders Required: Case study: Charles Schwab & Company |
| S26: 12/07/99 | Current Topics: The open source revolution Required: Open Season |
| S27: 12/09/99 | Current Topics: Technology and business-to-business commerce Required: Tidal Wave (not online yet) Required: B2B exchanges explained (not online yet) |
First half of semester
| Session/Date | |
| S1: 9/7/99 | Introduction: Course overview, overview of information systems |
| S2: 9/9/99 | Understanding Information: Data, information and knowledge, types of information, representing information, properties of information. Class handout: Understanding Information |
| S3: 9/14/99 | Internet and Web Basics 1: The physical Internet, domain names, email, the WWW, IP addresses and URLs, web servers, HTTP and HTML. NET 3-10, 27-29 Optional: SENN Chapter 3 |
| S4: 9/16/99 | Internet and Web Basics 2: Finding information on the Web, directories and search engines, web publishing. NET 43-49, 58-61; browse through NET Chapter 9 |
| S4: 9/21/99 | Internet and Web Basics (wrap-up): Finding information on the Web, directories and search engines, web publishing. NET 43-49, 58-61; browse through NET Chapter 9 |
| S6: 9/23/99 | Hardware: The basic model of computing, chips, microprocessors and memory, types of computers, data storage devices, the stored program concept Class handout: Hardware Fundamentals Class handout: Apple's new processors (CNET news.com, 8/30/99) Optional: Saved: What death can't destroy and how to digitize it (Wired, 9/98). Optional: SENN Chapter 4 and 5 |
| L1: 9/24/99 | Lab Session: Publishing a web page on the WWW In L100, 1:00 - 5:30 p.m. Publishing a Web Page at Stern |
| S7: 9/28/99 | Software: Algorithms, programs and programming languages, source and executable code, operating systems and application software. Class handout: Software Fundamentals Class handout: Free Software from Anywhere? (Business Week, 9/13/99) Optional: SENN Chapter 2, 60-70 |
| S8: 9/30/99 | Networks 1: Types of networks, network protocols, communications channels Class handout: Networking Fundamentals Optional: SENN Chapter 10, 458-471 |
| S9: 10/05/99 | Networks 2: Modems and network interfaces, interconnecting networks, data-voice-video convergence, broadband. Class handout: Networking Fundamentals Class handout: The 20-Ton Packet (online in October)Optional: Meet Cisco's Mr. Internet (Business Week, 9/13/99) Optional: SENN Chapter 10, 472-478 |
| S10: 10/07/99 | Technology Case Discussion: Coding and distributing music on the Web Class handout: 'Music on the Web' case articles |
| L2: 10/08/99 | Lab Session: Microsoft Excel hands-on. In L100, 1:00 - 5:30 p.m.Do Excel CD Session 1 and 2 before the lab |
| S11: 10/12/99 | Business Modeling 1: Elements of business modeling, good spreadsheet design Excel CD Session 1 Optional: SENN Chapter 6, 254-260 |
| S12: 10/14/99 | Business Modeling 2: Using functions, absolute and relative references, visual representations of information Excel CD Sessions 3 and 5 Optional: SENN Chapter 6, 264-281 |
| S13: 10/19/99 | Business Modeling 3: Problem solving Review Class handout: Solving problems using Excel |
| S14: 10/21/99 | Midterm Examination All material covered so far |
| Required textbook Netscape Communicator and the World Wide Web (referred to as ‘NET’) Required CD-ROM: Advantage InteractiveSoftware Tutorial - Microsoft Excel ‘97 (referred to as ‘Excel CD’) Recommended textbook: Information Technology inBusiness: Principles, Practices and Opportunities, by James A. Senn (referred to as SENN). |