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| http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/compscisc98/ and |
| http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/internetics/, "Internetics: Technologies, Applications and Academic Fields" Invited Chapter in Book :Feynman and Computation", edited by A.J.G. Hey, Perseus Books (1999) |
| We will discuss a broad definition of computational science to be the interdisciplinary area between computer science and all application areas. |
| We suggest traditionally that simulation has been focus of computational science but that today there is more student interest in information based applications and that these benefit from an interdisciplinary approach similar to simulation areas. |
| We discuss implications for physics education and |
| Possible future steps |
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Changing Curriculum in Computer Science and Physics: Computational Science and Internetics
Abstract of Internetics Presentation
Traditional Computational Science
Conventional Computational Science
Information Track of Computational Science
Information Track of Computational Science
Beginnings of Internetics
Detailed Course Contents
What is Internetics ?
Internetics and Computational Science
Computational Science and Syracuse Degrees
Synergy of Parallel Computing and The Grid Internetics as Unifying Principle
Proposed Internetics Core Curriculum
Internetics Certificate Curriculum: K-12
Sample 1999 Java Academy Certificate
Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Undergraduate
Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate
Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate Electives
Internetics and Physics I
Internetics and Physics II
Internetics and Communicating Science
Good Ideas? Failed Implementation?
Outside Interest in Courses
NPAC is Popular with AltaVista .....
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| University of New Mexico |
| NCSA Alliance Chautauqua |
| 9 August 99 |
| http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/abqallianceaug99 |
| Geoffrey Fox |
| Syracuse University NPAC |
| 111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100 |
| 3154432163 |
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| http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/compscisc98/ and |
| http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/internetics/, "Internetics: Technologies, Applications and Academic Fields" Invited Chapter in Book :Feynman and Computation", edited by A.J.G. Hey, Perseus Books (1999) |
| We will discuss a broad definition of computational science to be the interdisciplinary area between computer science and all application areas. |
| We suggest traditionally that simulation has been focus of computational science but that today there is more student interest in information based applications and that these benefit from an interdisciplinary approach similar to simulation areas. |
| We discuss implications for physics education and |
| Possible future steps |
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| 1991 |
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| At Syracuse built around a two course sequence and associated application, computer science and math courses |
CPS615: Introduction to Computational Science
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CPS713: Case Studies in Computational Science
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| These form 2 course certificate in simulation track of computational science |
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| 1995 |
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Grew at Syracuse into 4 Core Courses offered as a certificate now called Internetics
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| CPS406(undergraduate)/606(graduate) Introduction to Web Technologies |
| CPS616 Core Web and Distributed Object Technologies |
| CPS640 Internet Infrastructure |
| CPS714 Advanced Topics and Case Studies in Internetics |
| Graduate |
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| Spring 1995 --- first "special topics" course in web technologies |
| Spring 1996 -- first Undergraduate Java and web technology course (will become CPS606) and first official CPS616/714 courses |
Spring, 1996 --- Undergraduate course (spanning Java and MPI) offered from Syracuse University to Harbin Institute of Technology in China by Xiaoming Li and Fox
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| Spring 1997 -- First offering of CPS640 Internet Systems |
| Spring, 1998 --- A graduate course in Internetics at Peking University by Prof. Xiaoming Li and International Collaborative Web University proposed by Li and Fox |
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| CPS406/606: CGI, Java, Introduction to CORBA/RMI/JDBC |
| CPS616: More on CORBA/RMI/JDBC; Database discussion as necessary; Advanced Java (Servlets, Javabeans, Enterprise Javabeans, Frameworks); Security; Introduction to XML; JavaScript and Dynamic HTML; in the past VRML and Perl |
| CPS640: Network and Internet Service Architecture; Quality of Service; Multimedia Servers; Compression technology |
| CPS714: Whatever is important this semester done as a projects course; XML (for scientific information and to build PSE's); Distributed Computing using CORBA/Web; Java Grande; Advanced Security; How to build a Portal; Collaboration; Electronic Commerce; High performance Web Servers; Latest W3C Initiatives |
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| Emerging field centered on technologies services and applications enabling and enabled by world wide communication and computing grids |
| The contents come from Computer Communication and Information science fields but with an applied flavor so forms critical knowledge needed by many application fields such as scientific computing, telemedicine, electronic commerce, digital journalism and education |
| Students with an interdisciplinary background will be encouraged |
| The applied focus with many totally new and rapidly evolving technologies makes Internetics unique |
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Computational Science is Interdisciplinary field in between Computer Science and "large scale Scientific and Engineering simulation-based" applications
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Internetics is Interdisciplinary field between CS and Both Simulation and Information-based applications
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| Enrollment in Classic Computational Science at Syracuse has dropped from 50 to 10; enrollment in Internetics has risen from 6 to 100 (95-98) |
| Current Internetics Curriculum starts with High School Java Academy;undergraduate and graduate programs, through the four course continuing education certificate |
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| Essentially nobody is interested in the available (computational science) named certificates and Masters degrees |
Unfortunately students outside computer science are mainly interested in a masters in computer science as this is known to be a "Ticket to a Green Card".
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| Many students do attend the courses and the Computer Science PhD students like the Computational Science PhD written qualifying exam ( you must take and pass 3 exams in areas such as algorithms, AI, operating systems/architecture, logic ) |
| Computational Science is an allowed exam area and students chose one of the two tracks |
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| The two forms of Large Scale Computing Scale Computer for Scale Users in Proportion Power User to number of computers |
| Parallel Distributed Information Systems Computers Computational Grids |
| <--------------- Internetics Technologies ---------------> |
| 1% market |
| 99% of market |
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| Developed at K-12, Undergraduate and Graduate level by Li and Fox and some of this material developed and offered at Syracuse and Peking. |
| Proposed collaboration to offer between universities in USA China and England fall 99 failed due to conflicts in semester timing and natural "size" of course |
| Graduate level similar to Syracuse courses |
| Note here K-12 offering |
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| K-12 is in practice Middle and High School Students |
These 2 courses must be passed to obtain Certificate
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| Latter implemented as NPAC's Java Academy at http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/k12javaspring98/ while |
| the 1999 version was offered using TangoInteractive to students at Boston, Houston, Starkville and Syracuse http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/k12javaspring99/ |
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These 4 courses must be passed to obtain Certificate
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| Some combination of first two offered at Syracuse each year |
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| Graduate and Continuing Education have same curriculum with 4 core and 2 electives needed for certificate |
| Core Courses (total 4 courses) |
(There will also be a "booster course" offered to students who have taken the Undergraduate certificate so they can "place out" of graduate core course)
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| Need to take 2 electives chosen from: |
Computer Science Electives
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Application Electives:
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| Roughly CPS714 |
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| Physics departments may disappear in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level. |
| How do we rescue physics with revised curricula? |
Classical Computational Science appears not to be a complete answer but Internetics offers some interesting attractive academic programs combining computing and the "technical sciences"
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Physics is in many ways a BETTER educational background than computer science to today's major computer science challenge -- designing and building distributed systems
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A combination of Physics and a minor in Internetics is an interesting background for many areas such as:
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Further comparing "books" with the Web, we see that the Web offers opportunities for "technical people" as well as those with good "communication skills" (of a traditional kind)
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This implies a "Computational Science/Internetics" minor including base information technology and optional elective in "science communication" prepared by physics/engineering
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| Phy 300 is a special course exploring the new opportunities presented by the Internet for communicating science and quantitative ideas to laymen as well as to technically trained people. |
| The course is designed for students with interests bridging science and communications: prospective science, journalism, and education majors. |
| It offers an introduction to the tools required to communicate using the internet, as well as case studies of successful and unsuccessful approaches to communicating science with this new medium. |
| Students should be co-enrolled or have previously completed a calculus course, MAT 285 or MAT 295 |
| Syracuse Fall 99 being developed by G. Fox |
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| So we have a smattering of reasonable courses but not enough faculty and students to implement in a sustainable fashion |
Even in Information track where there is enough students, there are not enough faculty to
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In simulation track, there are not enough students to allow university to offer
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| Solution is distance education ? |
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| Course Web material gets 400,000 page hits every month -- majority from .com clients (this removes spiders/robots) |
| Courses have been given several times over the Web using synchronous or asynchronous technologies |
CDROM's have been made available
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| Java Academy given over the Web spring 99 semester to four K-12 clusters |
CPS606 CPS615 and CPS616 given spring 99 to JSU (Jackson State University), Mississippi State, Clark Atlanta, DoD Lab at Vicksburg
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| CPS640, CPS615 and CPS616 will be available via distance education in next two semesters |
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