COSMOS Cluster 6: Networking 

Your teaching staff: 

Tracy Larrabee Instructor

Andrea David Teaching Assistant

Amine Bouchti  Teaching Fellow

Each Cluster-6 COSMOS student has a personal web site, which they will fill out over the course of COSMOS.

 

Helpful online resources:

• The TCP/IP Guide by Charles M. Kozierok, Fifth Edition. There is another quick link for this.
  • You can read this online for free.
  • You can buy it at amazon.com (but I wouldn't).
• Several Networking Sections of Wikipedia
• Some useful sections of Khan Academy
• You are going to become very familiar with XKCD because your instructor loves it
• Several other sites of interest as we move through our time together

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What we will Cover:

We are going to talk about the Internet, how it works, a bit of its history, and its affects on our society.  We will start by talking about the underpinnings of communication: information transfer.  Then we will become a bit more abstract and talk about how local networks work, then we will talk more and more abstractly.  Throughout our time together we will talk about our digital age and how it affects us: how to be good "netizens" and how to protect ourselves on the Web.  You will be encouraged to contribute your own thoughts and opinions to our understanding.

I will update our readings as we go (You can always get to them via the fly-out menu to the left).  To start with, I've only put in the readings for the beginnings of our discussions.

 

Communications

Please feel free to tell either the professor or the TA about any comments or suggestions you might have about how to improve the class. The best way to do this is by electronic mail, If you want to communicate anything to either of us anonymously, this is a good way to do it. You are always welcome to broadcast your opinions by using the webforum.