Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 1 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Internet & Web Systems Dr. Haim Levkowitz
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 2 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Course overview Who am I? Who are you? Goals for the course Syllabus
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 3 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Goals History Architecture & working Current status Issues, needs, desires Non-technological implications Future developments Research & commercial opportunities
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 4 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Topics Intorduction to the Internet Introduction to the World-Wide Web HTML, Perl, Java (very brief) CGI Programming Imagemaps Internet & Web Security Establishing & maintianing a web site Advanced & future topics …
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 5 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Advanced & future topics Business and e-commerce Searching and finding Handling overloads of information Intelligent autonomous agents Multimedia content delivery Legal, social, political implications
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 6 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Internet’s impact on Research & education Military & government Business Society & everybody
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 7 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Research & Education Share information & resources Collaborate
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 8 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Military & government Communications Services Dissemination
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 9 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Business & commerce Five phases of Internet’s contribution to profitability 91-93: HW providers 93-96: IAPs, ISPs, online services 94-date: Hi-BW comm. lines (telcos) 95-date: SW professionals: programmers, consultants, info brokers, contents org’s Future: contents
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 10 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Host computer growth
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 11 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Bandwidth growth
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 12 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Internet network architecture Backbone Network access providers Internet access providers Local access providers End users California (PacBell) Chicago (Ameritech) New York (Sprint) Washington (MFS) vBNS -- Very High Speed Backbone (operated by MCI) SprintMCIAT&TAOLUUNetPSI Local providers Local providers Local providers Local providers Local providers Local providers Home customers Small businesses Large businesses Government
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 13 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Commercial vs. consumer model of Internet access
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 14 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Internet vs. Online Service
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 15 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Internet access methods
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research 16 © Copyright 1998 Haim Levkowitz Summary of features