courses
  
 
 
 
   

 A summary of my coursework

Semester
Course
Title
Instructor
Textbook
Spring 2005 SIMS Peer to Peer Technology: Legal and Policy Challenges Pam Samuelson Syllabus, Blog
Fall 2002 CS 294-05 Privacy Doug Tygar (CS/SIMS)  
Spring 2002 PPOL National Security & Public Policy James Bamford
CS298-36 Digital Defense Seminar  
Fall 2001 SIMS 235 Cyberlaw Pam Samuelson (Boalt Law & SIMS)  
Spring 2001 CS 294 Electronic Commerce Doug Tygar (CS/SIMS)  
  SIMS 290-5 Advanced Networking John Chuang (SIMS)  
  SIMS 296 Research Methods John Chuang (SIMS) Syllabus
Fall 2000 CS 261 Computer Security David Wagner (CS)  Syllabus, Readings
   SIMS 247 Information Visualization

Marti Hearst (SIMS)

  Syllabus, Readings
  SIMS Quantitative Research Methods
(Usability Testing)		 Rashmi Sinha Syllabus
Spring 2000 SIMS 237 Intellectual Property Pam Samuelson (Boalt Law & SIMS)  Syllabus
  SIMS 290-4 Human Centered Computing Seminar John Canny (CS)  
Fall 1999 CS 260 Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction James A. Landay (CS)  Readings
  CS294-4 Human Centered Computing John Canny (CS)

-Things that make us smart by Donald A. Norman, Addison Wesley, 1993
-Context and Consciousness by Bonnie A. Nardi (Ed.), 2nd printing, MIT Press, 1997.
-Interpersonal Processes in Groups and Organizations by Sara Kiesler, Harlan Davidson Inc., Illinois,1978.
Also see online readings.
  SIMS 290-4 Human Centered Computing Seminar John Canny (CS)/ Nancy Van House (SIMS)  
Spring 1999 SIMS 213 User Interface Design and Development Marti Hearst (SIMS)

- Human-Computer Interaction by Alan J. Dix, et. al., 2nd edition (Feb 1998) Prentice Hall
- Supplemental Readings
  SIMS 219 Privacy, Security and Cryptography Doug Tygar (CS/SIMS)

-Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Menezes, van Oorschot, Vanstone, CRC Press, 1997
-Designing Systems for Internet Commerce, Treese, Stewart, Addison-Wesley, 1998
-Schneier, Applied Cryptography, 2nd edition (5th printing or beyond), Wiley, 1995
-Schroeder, Number Theory in Science and Communication, 3rd edition, Springer-Verlag, 1997

SIMS 296A Section3 Economics of Intellectual Property in the
Information Age		 Pam Samuelson (Law/SIMS)/ Suzanne Scotchmer (Econ)  Reader (see schedule for topics)
SIMS 290-4 Human Centered Computing Seminar John Canny (EECS)/ Nancy Van House (SIMS)  
Fall 1998 SIMS 202 Information Organization and Retrieval Marti Hearst (SIMS)/ Ray Larson (SIMS)  -Organizing Knowledge, 2nd Ed., J.E. Rowley, (Gower:1996) and Readings
SIMS 204 Information Users and Society Nancy Van House(SIMS)/ Pam Samuelson (Boalt Law,SIMS)  -Readings for Part 1 and Part 2
SIMS 206 Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure Dave Messerschmitt (EECS)/
Doug Tygar (CS,SIMS) 		 -D.G. Messerschmitt, Networked Applications: A Guide to the New Computing Infrastructure, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999
Summer 1998 
George Washington University		 CS 217 Computing Algorithms Dr. Abdou Youssef (EECS) -Introduction to Algorithms, Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest, McGraw Hill, 1992 
-Computer Algorithms, Horowitz, Sahni and Rajasekaran, Computer Science Press, 1997 
  CS 298 Independent Research Dr. Lance J. Hoffman (EECS)   
Spring 1998
GWU 		CS 701 Electronic Commerce this is a class I developed with Dean Rachele Heller and Prof. Lance Hoffman  see the syllabus and NYT article about the class
  CS 232 Automata and Formal Languages Professor Rolando Fernandez (EECS)  -Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Addison-Wesley 1979
-The Theory of Computation, Bernard A. Moret, Addison Wesley 1998
  CS 182 Computer Systems Architecture and Design Dr. Nikitas A. Alexandridis (EECS) -Computer Systems Architecture: Microprocessor Based Designs, N. Alexandridis, CAPCO, 1998
Fall 1997
GWU 		CS 297 Research Frontiers in Security Dave Balenson (Trusted Information Systems, Inc.)   
  LAWJ34209
Georgetown University Law Center		 Law of Information Privacy and Security Marc Rotenberg (Georgetown Law Center, EPIC)  -The Right to Privacy, Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy (New York: Knopf, 1995) 
-Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Value, and Public Policy, Priscilla M. Regan (Chapel Hill: North Carolina Press, 1995)
-Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape, edited by Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997) 
- The Privacy Law Sourcebook (EPIC 1997)
Spring 1997
GWU 		CS298 Independent Research Lance Hoffman
Fall 1996
GWU 		CS229  Computer Security Lance Hoffman -Pfleeger, Charles, Security in Computing, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1997.
Spring 1996
GWU 		CS230 Information Policy I was the TA for Lance Hoffman Course Reader
IAFF225 Environmental Policy Robert Rycroft Course Reader
Fall 1995
GWU 		IAFF220 Science, Technology and Public Policy John Logsdon, Robert Rycroft, Nick Vonortas Course Reader
Prior to January  1995  If you really want to know what I did as an undergrad, see the Lehigh Chemical Engineering course listing. I also took courses in Science, Technology and Society (my minor) and in art and photography. 

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