•This Foilset contains introductory material on CSIT/CS Course IT1 for
fall 2000
•Some Aspects of Course Logistics -- all students must go
to web site for complete discussion of
this
•Overview of Field and Material covered and relation to
other courses IT2, IT3 (proposed) and the
synergy between computational
science and information technology
•The Internet
is the most important distributed computer system and it has
spawned the most remarkable and general
purpose software – In studying the Internet, we study distributed computing (hardware and software)
•Students
should be able to design and build any distributed system
•Summary of Base Distributed Object Web and
Internet Technologies