Curriculum topics

NOTE: This list of topics should reflect a broader perspective than just engineering / Computer Science.

History of the Web
- Forerunners (Otlet, Wells, Bush, Engelbart, Nelson) - information systems, concepts, early computer systems
- Hypertext Community - information systems
- Internet history - DARPA, IP, TCP, FTP, WAIS, GOPHER
- W3C History - See W3C timeline
Building the Web
- Web Architecture (HTTP, HTML, URI, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, AJAX)
- Key Algorithms
- Community Inclusion- Incentives for Innovation - Openness / universality
- Decentralisation
- Governance
- Standards
The Web in Society
- E-commerce
- IP / copyright
- Privacy
- Co-evolution of society and web
- Culture and technology
- Systems theory
- Social structures and processes
- Groups and identity
- Commercial structures and economics
- Globalisation
- Social capital and power inequality
- Collective intelligence
Deploying the Web - Operationalising Web Science for a World of International Commerce
- Business Strategy
- Information systems (basics of)
- Cloud computing infrastructure
- Policy
- Regulation and security
- Sector-specific info
- Online markets
- Design vs evolution
- International context - developed and developing world
- Profit vs common good
- Software / hardware context (speeds etc)
Analysing the Web
- Methodologies (build around case studies)
- Uncertainties and critical thinking
- Graph theory
- Power laws
- Statistics / regression analysis
- Networks - game theory, social network analysis, ANT
- Web mining
Understanding Web Users
- Surveys
- Qualitative