Institute of Mangement Accountants Seminar

URL: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~cytron/ima.html

Ron K. Cytron
Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science

Quick picks: Copyright notice | Course outline | Useful Launches | Pico Text editor guide | Creating a home page | HTML Primer | HTML Guide

Course Outline

1. History of the Internet (HTML) ... (Text version, use this if other not available)
   • Introduction to the Internet
   • Overview of Usenet News
   • The ARPANET
   • Development of Usenet News
   • From ARPANET to Usenet

Talmud and Hypertext ---Tradition meets Revolution on the WWW

• Multimedia : two senses are better than one
• Webster Dictionary
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• A threaded discussion of Mark Twain Ecash
• Guide to hypertext fiction, levels of a story
• An interactive murder/mystery story
• Multilingual (click on the picture to get English review)
• Stories from Downtown Anywhere
• Yahoo's index for hypertext literature
• Discussion of hypertext as medium for literature
• Bad example of hypertext literature

Real or synthetic?

• Confession booth
• Yenta: automatic matchmaker (in progress)
• Post cards
• A (virtual) vineyard
• English garden
• The Visible Human Project. Click here for a sample view

The URL: Uniform Resource Locator How://Where/What

• How: which protocol?
  • http: hypertext transfer protocol Washington University Archive
  • ftp: file tranfer protocol Washington University Archive
  • gopher: Virtual Reference Desk at Union College Library
  • telnet: remote login Library of Congress
• Where: which Internet address?
  • US educational sites (www.place.edu, .country)
    • www.wustl.edu (Washington University)
    • www.siue.edu (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville)
  • Commercial sites (.com, .country)
    • www.iflyswa.com (Southwest Airlines)
    • www.jcpenney.com (JC Penney)
    • www.mei.co.jp (Matsushita/Panasonic)
  • Nonprofit sites
    • www.npr.org (National Public Radio)
    • www.cancer.org (American Cancer Society)
    • www.town.hall.org (U.S. Patent/Full Text Search)
  • Government sites (.gov, .state.us)
    • www2.whitehouse.gov (White House)
    • www.state.mo.us (Missouri State Government)
    • www.st-louis.mo.us (St. Louis Home Page)
    • www.inlink.com (St. Louis, the unofficial guide)
• What: "~" symbol looks up a user, the rest is file path
  • /acis/bartleby/bartlett/index.html (Familiar Quotations guide)
  • ~gouge/twinkies.html (Experiments with a favorite food)

Using the WWW to conduct business

• Organization (lack thereof)
  • Yahoo index to the WWW
  • Lycos search engine
  • Journalists' launch pad
  • WWW launch pads
  • A "411"-like service for the Internet
  • Lexis-Nexis information providers
• Privacy
  • Foundations: PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and RSA (Public Key Encryption)
  • Blind digital signatures, the basis of David Chaum's Digicash now finding many uses on the Internet, including Ecash accounts offered by Mark Twain Bank
  • Compare the above technolgoy with Cybercash, which offers payment using the Internet, with security but without privacy.
  • The Clipper Chip: Government tries to legislate cryptography
• Freedom of expression: is the WWW broadcast media or print?
  • Netiquette
  • Electronic Freedom Frontier (blue ribbon at top of page)
  • Decision by the Supreme Court
• Copyright issues
  • Rice University stance
  • ACM (Computer Professional Socity) policy
  • Running afoul of the law
• Merchandising: give it away or sell it? Advertising on the web.
  • Netscape
  • Lycos
  • Map Quest
• Putting it out on the web: creating HTML web pages
  • How to create a web site
  • The Internet store
  • HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the language for Web documents: primer, HTML guide, and other pointers
  • You can edit HTML documents using a text editor (Pico), or using some free extensions to Microsoft Word or WordPerfect
  • Click here for instructions to create your own test home page
• Bringing it to life: Sun Microsystems' Java programming language
  • Everyone will be using Java
  • Java FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
  • Bibliography of articles about Java

Accounting presence on the WWW

• Institute of Management Accountings Home Page
• Tax information
• Rutgers Accounting Web This is a great place to start your exploring. If this site is too busy, try here .
• ANet: International Accounting Network (Home Page)
• ANet mailing list archive
• Cases from Management Accounting Practice

More exploring

• Reference information
• Launch sites
• Treasure hunt

This page and course information copyright 1996 by Ron K. Cytron. All rights reserved.