In particular, the Sedgewick book is not required reading before class, but rather a good reference if you need clarification after the lecture.
NOTE: This table is wide. The last column is "Assignments Due".
(CP) Denotes "Coursepack" (available at Michigan Document Service)
(Supp) Denotes "Supplemental" (handout in class)
(Text) Denotes textbook available at local text bookstores.
| Date | Time | Room | Topic | Readings | Assignments Due | |
| Week 1 | 3-Sep | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Intro to the new discipline; Skill: How to work in groups | (CP) Scholtes: The Team Handbook, part of Chapter 4 and Chapter 6 | |
| 5-Sep | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Philosophy, overview and goals | (CP) Norman: Cognitive engineering; *(Text) Preece: Chapters 1 and 2; *(CP) Varian: pp 1-19. *(CP) Miksa: The cultural legacy.... | Miska is also available as http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/faculty/modlib.html | |
| *(CP) Shuman: Foundations and issues....... Chapter 3 only *(CP) Wiegand: United States-840-849 (CP) McCrimmon: Philosophies.494-8 *(CP) Bradsher: An introduction..1-17 | ||||||
| (CP) Cox: Archives;-39-43 *(CP) Saracevic: Information sci...5-27 (CP) Ingwersen: Informat...137-174 | ||||||
| Week 2 | 9-Sep am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Skill: The design process | (CP) Nielsen: The usability engineering lifecycle; *(Text) Preece: Chapters 17, 18, and 23 | |
| 9-Sep pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Skill: The design process, continued. | |||
| 10-Sep | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Agents and agent system methodology (Introduction and Intelligent Agents) | *(Text) Russell & Norvig: Chapters 1 and 2 | ||
| 12-Sep | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | How to think about problems; Information seeking | *(Supp) Davidow: A Stirrup in Time; *(Supp) Turkle: Triumph of Tinkering; *(Supp) Poverty of Economic Modernism; *(Supp) Dawkins, God's Utility Function 95-108; *(CP) Taylor: Question neg ..178-94. *(CP) Belkin: Anomalous state...133-43 *(CP) Kuhlthau: Inside the ...361-71.. *(CP) Lynch: The transformation...5-10 *(CP) Lynch: Reaction, response 107-112 | Assignment on Organizational Impact due (Olson) | |
| 12-Sep eve | 6:30 - 9:30 | 3336 Media Union | Programming Class #1 | *(Text) Ford and Topp, Chapter 2 | ||
| Week 3 | 16-Sep am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Needs analysis, contextual analysis, the reference interview | *(Text) Preece: Chapter 19; (CP) Landauer: pp 277-280; *(Text) Mann: Chapters 1 and 2; *(CP) Bopp: History and varieties.... 3-16, skim 16-35 | |
| *(CP) Sutton and Holt: The reference interview-36-54 (CP) Herndon: Access to the research...31-37 | ||||||
| 16-Sep pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Objective functions, defining what the problem is; Human motivation | *(CP) Bailey: Chapter 9 | ||
| 17-Sep | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Function allocation | |||
| 19-Sep | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Engineering agents Integrating Question #1 | *(CP) Cummings: University libraries..., Chapters 3 to 7 especially | Integrating Question #1: Why is information important? Why are information systems important? Why are they worth the trouble? | |
| 19-Sep eve | 6:30 - 9:30 | 3336 Media Union | Programming Class #2 | *(Text) Ford and Topp: Chapters 1 and 3 | ||
| Week 4 | 23-Sep am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Review Assignment #1; Economic constraints | Project Assignment #1: System Requirements | |
| 23-Sep pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Non-strategic agents, choice, optimization, and comparative statics | |||
| 24-Sep | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Overview of Organization Theory | *(CP) Cohen: Artificial intelligence *(CP)Simon: The Architecture of Complexity *(CP) Henderson: Technological Change | ||
| 26-Sep | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Routines and standards | *(CP) Nelson and David: An evolutionary theory of economic change: Chapters 4 and 5 *(CP) David: Clio and the economics of QWERTY | Assignment on Function Allocation due (Olson) | |
| 26-Sep eve | 6:30 - 9:30 | 3336 Media Union | Programming Class #3 | *(Text) Ford and Topp: Chapters 4, 8, and 9 | ||
| Week 5 | 30-Sep am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Organizational Learning; Effects of Technology | *(CP) Brown and Duguid: Universities in the Digital Age *(CP) Malone and Rockart: Computers, Netowrks, and the Corporation. | Economics Problem Set 1: Assignment on Optimization due (MacKie-Mason) |
| 30-Sep pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Elementary Data Structures; Trees Collections | (Text) Sedgewick: Chapters 3 and 4; *(CP) Magrill and Corbin: Acq... 1-40 *(CP) ALA: Guide for written... | Assignment on "United States" due (Drabenstott) | |
| 1-Oct | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Recursion | (Text) Sedgewick: Chapter 5 | ||
| 3-Oct | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Analysis of algorithms; Elementary sorting methods Human information processing | (Text) Sedgewick: Chapters 6 and 8: *(Text) Preece: Chapters 3 and 4; (CP) Card et al: Chapter 2 | ||
| 3-Oct eve | 6:30 - 9:30 | 3336 Media Union | Programming Class #4 | *(Text) Ford and Copp: Review Chapters 10 and 11 | ||
| Week 6 | 7-Oct am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Human information processing | *(Text) Preece: Chapters 5, 6, and 8; (CP) Bailey: Chapter 5 (to page 146) (CP) Lindsay & Norman: Chapter 12; (CP) Glass and Holyoak: Chapter 5 | |
| 7-Oct pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Classification | *(Text) Mann: pp 15-24; *(CP) Miksa: Classification-144-53 *(CP) Rowley: Chapters 13 and 14-176-236 *(Shapiro) Ranganathan: Elements of *(DIAD Lab and SI Lib) Volume 1 Dewey Decimal: pp xi-xv, xix-xxxix | Assignment on information seeking due (Drabenstott) | |
| *(DIAD Lab and SI Lib) Volume 1 Dewey Decimal: pp xi-xv, xix-xxxix. | ||||||
| 8-Oct | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Controlled vocabulary; Quicksort; Priority queues, (omit heapsort and indirect heaps) | *(CP) Rowley: Organizing knowledge...Chapters 12, 15, and 16 *(CP) Lancaster: Vocabulary control... 77-89 only *(Text) Mann: Chapter 4 | ||
| *(DIAD-SI Lib) Walker: pp v-xvi. *(DIAD-SI Lib) Houston: pp vii-xxxvi *(DIAD-SI Lib) Library of Congress Subject Headings; *(DIAD-SI Lib) Subject cataloging manual; | ||||||
| *(DIAD-SI Lib) Chan Library of Congress Subject headings (Text) Sedgewick: Chapters 9 and 11 | ||||||
| 10-Oct | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Skill: Design of systems to fit the human information processor | *(Text) Preece: Chapters 11, 12, 13, 24; (CP) Marcus: Principles of effective visual...; (CP) Murch: Color graphics; (CP) Nielsen, Chapter 5 | ||
| Week 7 | 14-Oct am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Non-strategic agents, uncertainty | *(CP) Varian: pp 212-229; (Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 5. | |
| 14-Oct pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Non-strategic agents, consumer agent | *(Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 to p 107 | ||
| 15-Oct | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Elementary searching methods; Balanced trees; Elementary Graph Algorithms; | (Text) Sedgewick: Chapters 11, 14, 15, and 29 | ||
| 17-Oct | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Weighted Graphs, (only Minimum Spanning Tree, Priority-First search); Human decision making | (Text) Sedgewick: Chapters 31 and 32 | ||
| Week 8 | 21-Oct am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Non-strategic agents, consumer agent, continued | *(Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 8; (Text) Pyndyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 7 | |
| 21-Oct pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Non-strategic agents, supplier agent, continued. | *(CP) Avery, Resnick, and Zeckhauser: The market for evaluations... *(Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 18; *(CP) Varian: Chapter 10, pp 179-185 | ||
| 22-Oct | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Small group behavior | *(CP) Clark and Clark: Chapter 3; *(CP) Cole and Nast-Cole: A primer... *(CP) Olson and Olson: User centered... | Assignment on visual redesign due (Olson) | |
| 24-Oct | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Small group behavior, continued; Review classification assignment | Meet at CREW, C2420 BusAd; Ungraded classification asignment due; Subject heading assignment due (Drabenstott) | ||
| Week 9 | 28-Oct am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Review of Agent Group Progress | Review of Agent Group Progress | |
| 28-Oct pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Markets: Equilibrium | *(Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapters 9 and 10 | Assignment on Optimization Applications due (MacKie-Mason) | |
| 29-Oct | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Bibliography, type of literature, footnote chasing and least effort approaches to searching | *(Text) Mann: Chapters 5-8, pp 45-102 *Tiefel: The gateway to info... *(CP) Weinstock:Citation indexes 16-40 *(CP) Bush: As we may think 101-8 *(Shapiro Reserve) Lancaster and Warner: Chapters 8 and 11 - 243-81 | Group classification assignment due (Drabenstott) | |
| 31-Oct | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Markets: Equilibrium, continued; competitive agent equilibrium Integrating Question #2 | *(CP) Stiglitz: Economics of public sector: Chapter 4, pp 75-95; *(CP) Mullen and Wellman: Simple Computational.... | Integrating Question #2: Will traditional libraries survive with new highly interactive systems? | |
| Week 10 | 4-Nov am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Review assignment; Scholar's workstation; indexing | *(Text) Mann: Chapters 9 and 10 | Collection development assignment due (Drabenstott) |
| 4-Nov pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Markets: Externalities and market failures | *(Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 16, pp 588-90Chapter 4 pp 118-122; *(CP) MacKie Mason and Varian: Pricing the internet-269-314 | ||
| *(CP) Shenker, Clark, Estrin and Herzog: Pricing in compter networks... | ||||||
| 5-Nov | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Markets: Externalities and market failures, continued | *(Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 18- 623-648 *(CP) Liebowitz and Margolis: Network externality....133-150 | ||
| 7-Nov | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Solving Problems by Searching | *(Text) Russell & Norvig: Chapter 3.1 - 3.5 | ||
| Week 11 | 11-Nov am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Skill: How to evaluate an information system | (Text) Preece: Chapters 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34. *(CP) Olson and Moran: Mapping the method muddle... | |
| 11-Nov pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Skill: How to evaluate an information system, continued; Indexing, searching, and evaluating search results | *(Shapiro) Lancaster and Warner: Chapters 8 and 11; (CP) Tague-Stucliffe: Information retrieval..... | ||
| 12-Nov | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Informed Search Methods | *(CP) Wellman: A market oriented..... *(Text) Russell & Norvig: Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.4 | Project Assignment #2: Agent design and activity flow diagrams | |
| 14-Nov | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Agents that Reason Logically | *(Text) Russell & Norvig: Chapter 6.1 - 6.4 | ||
| Week 12 | 18-Nov am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Evaluating search results, continued Integrating Question #3 | Integrating Question #3: Why do we organize things? What is the best way to organize things? Why are so many things organized in hierarchies? Assignment on evaluation a system due (Olson) | |
| 18-Nov pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Archives approach to information seeking | *(CP) Hannestad: Evolution of archival.. pp 124-154 *(CP) Duranti: The odyssey...Part-3-10 *(CP) Duranti: The odyssey... Part II-3-10 | ||
| *(CP) Stielow: Archival theory... 14-26 (CP) O'Toole: On the idea of permanence..10-25. (CP) O'Toole: On the idea of uniqueness 10-25 | ||||||
| (CP)Bradsher and Pacifico: History..18-33. (CP) Thibodeau: Archival arrangement. 67-77 | ||||||
| (CP) Roberts: Defining electronic records....14-26 (CP) Hedstrom: Understanding.....334-54 | ||||||
| 19-Nov | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Review assignment from Drabenstott; Meta data, descriptive cataloging, collection-level records, bibliographic records | *(CP) Hagler: The biblio record, pp 26-63, 220-262. *(CP) Weibel et al: OCLC/NCSA Metadata workshop *(CP) Hakala, Husby, and Traugott: Warkwick framework... | Weibel also at www.oclc.org/oclc/research/publications/weibel/metadata/dublin_core_report.html Hakala is also at www.bibsys.no/warwick.html | |
| *(CP) Olson: Cataloging internet resources... | Olson is http://ftplaw.wuacc.edu/listproc/intercat/manual.txt | |||||
| 21-Nov | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Information seeking models revisited; First-Order Logic | *(Text) Russell & Norvig: 7.1 - 7.3 | 8 Puzzle due (Darr) | |
| Week 13 | 25-Nov am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Report on Group Progress and Issues | Oral report on group progress | |
| 25-Nov pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Report on Group Progress and Issues con't. | |||
| 26-Nov | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Inference and first order logic | *(Text) Russell & Norvig: 9.1-9.5 | Markets, Equilibrium and Externalities Assignment (Economics Problem Set 3) due (JMM) | |
| Thanks-giving | all day long | distributed locations | eating | |||
| Week 14 | 2-Dec am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | cancelled | ||
| 2-Dec pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Inference, cont.; Info system economics | Assignment on information retrieval due (Drabenstott) | ||
| 3-Dec | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Telecom industry economics, network externalities | *(Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 18, pp 623-648; *(CP) Liebowitz and Margolis: Network externality ..., pp 133-150 | Assignment memo to Endelman due (Olson) | |
| 5-Dec | 9:30 - 12:30 | 412 WH | Principle agent theory ... | *(Text) Pindyck and Rubinfeld: Chapter 17, pp 593-613; (CP) Varian: Chapter 34, pp 614-619 | ||
| Week 15 | 9-Dec am | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Smart markets | *(CP) Mackie-Mason and Varian: Pricing the internet, pp 269-314. | Project Assignment #3 due: Social Implementation |
| 9-Dec pm | 1 - 3 | 311 WH | Review assignment from Drabenstott; Integrating Question #4 | *(Text) Mann: Chapters 11 and 12; *(CP) Bates: The design of browsing...407-24 *(CP) Drabenstott: Enhancing to new.. 87-109 | Integrating Question #4: Do information systems improve productivity? | |
| * (CP) Steinberg: See and ye shall....172-182 | ||||||
| 10-Dec | 9:30-11:30 | 409 WH | Final group presentations | Final group presentations | 13-Dec | Second AI assignment due (Darr) | Week 16 | 16-Dec | Economics Assignment 4 due (MacKie-Mason) |
Last Update: 12/04/96
Name: Eileen GiffordFenton
Email: egfenton@umich.edu