X-Infomatics Course
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Basic Electronic Information Systems
	Web Pages
	Database
	Sketch of Today's Internet including Akamai, Inktomi etc.

Motivating Application 
	Bio-Informatics

Technology
	Data-mining of various sorts
	Web search Engines
	Hidden Markov Methods
	Neural nets etc.

Motivating Application
	Geo-Informatics
		Earthquake forecasting
	Financial Applications (Econo-Informatics)

Technology
	Distributed Computing
	Agents
	Today's Internet in Detail
	XML
	Semantic Web

Motivating Application
	New Media Informatics
	Distance Education

Technology
	Collaboration
	Networking
	Multi-media Services

Motivating application
	Science Infomatics
		Physics
		Chemistry

Technology
	Computational Grids
	Portals
	Information Visualization
	Human Computer Interfaces

Motivating application
	Health Infomatics (patient records)
	Telemedicine

Technology 
	Peer to Peer Systems (Gnutella, Publius etc.)
		Distributed search, Security, Accountability, Anonymity