Selected Readings:
Internet Workshops and Events:
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WebGeography & WebSociology
- General
Information Concerning Colloquia and Televised Talks
[UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering]
The UW CSE Colloquium features accessible talks by leading computer
scientists and computer engineers
from the University of Washington, the region, the nation, and the world.
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Tom Anderson (UW-CSE): Repairing the Internet: The Case for Detour
Tuesday, October 6, 1998,
3:30 pm , 134 Sieg
Abstract:
"Despite its obvious success, robustness, and scalability, the Internet
suffers from a number of end-to-end
performance and availability problems, including long and unpredictable
latencies for short connections, high
drop rates, low throughput for long transfers even when there is ample
link bandwidth, poor route selection,
and periods of unavailability despite the existence of redundant
paths...."
Internet
Classes
Web Guides & Web Texts:
- Guide to Using
the Internet
The Internet Web Text:
- is a hypertext guide to Internet resources, a partial substitute
for a paper-based text about the Internet.
- links you to Internet resources: orientation, guides, reference
materials, browsing and exploring tools,
subject and word-oriented searching tools, and information about
- connecting with people.
employs a variety of ways to present information..."
- Spool, Jared M., et al.,
Web site usability : a designer's guide.
San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
1999
Odegaard UWired Commons TK5105.888 .S72 1999 CHECK SHELF
xvii, 157 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
The Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive
technologies
- Thomas Ott, Paul Tiedemann,
Internet für Geographen. Eine praxisorientierte Einführung.
Preis: DM 34,00
(EUR 17,38)
Taschenbuch (1999)
Primus, Darmstadt; ISBN: 389678112X]
Web Groups:
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