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During July and early August of 2010, groups of 2-4 students will author an article in Citizendium on an "emerging technology" topic (to be pre-approved by the instructors). Students will be expected to include on each article more than one ''deep web'' references such as academic (refereed) journals, patent searches, and business surveys. The articles are not locked. We'd appreciate hearing any comments or suggestions you might have on their respective talk pages, plus the usual correction of grammar or spelling. | During July and early August of 2010, groups of 2-4 students will author an article in Citizendium on an "emerging technology" topic (to be pre-approved by the instructors). Students will be expected to include on each article more than one ''deep web'' references such as academic (refereed) journals, patent searches, and business surveys. The articles are not locked. We'd appreciate hearing any comments or suggestions you might have on their respective talk pages, plus the usual correction of grammar or spelling. | ||
Revision as of 15:51, 11 July 2010
Project overview
During July and early August of 2010, groups of 2-4 students will author an article in Citizendium on an "emerging technology" topic (to be pre-approved by the instructors). Students will be expected to include on each article more than one deep web references such as academic (refereed) journals, patent searches, and business surveys. The articles are not locked. We'd appreciate hearing any comments or suggestions you might have on their respective talk pages, plus the usual correction of grammar or spelling.
- Instructor: Pat Palmer and Dr. Dave Matuszek
- Institution: University of Pennsylvania
- Emails: pgpalmer (at) seas.upenn.edu, and matuszek (at) cis.upenn.edu
To participating students
Please feel free to customize your user page. Feel free (but not required) to add a link to this course on your user page using this code: [[CZ:Special_Topics_2010|Emerging Technologies 2010]]
Articles under development
There are the top-level articles under development for this course (more to be added):
Distributed_version_control [r]: Newer revision control systems for some of the most important open source projects (e.g., the Linux kernel, Qt, Ruby on Rails). [e]
(assigned to Group 5)
- HTML5 [r]: HTML5 is the next generation hypertext markup language standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium to provide new ways of presenting content on the World Wide Web that include transition effects, animation, video, and more. [e]
(assigned to Group 4)
Semantic_web [r]: Tim Berners-Lee's concept of a "web of knowledge", whereby web-based document contents would be annotated and classified so that computers can parse the classifications and provide search results based on the semantic information (what the content means), rather than simply on matching of text strings. [e]
(assigned to Group 9)
- Virtual_server [r]: Instances of server software hosted simultaneously on a single computer along with other instances of the same, or different, server operating systems. [e]
(assigned to Group 3)
Further information
See Special_Topics_2008, a previous Eduzendium course similar to this one.
Here is the notice that will appear on articles: CZ:Special_Topics_2010/EZnotice