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BCIS 5650: Emerging Information Technologies
Professor:
Name: Dr. Richard G. Vedder
Office: 338H Business Administration Building
Telephone: (940) 565-3104
Fax: (940) 565-4935
EMail: Vedder@unt.edu
CLASS TEAM REPORTS:
TEAM REPORT #1: XEROX PARC
TEAM REPORT #2: WHY TECHNOLOGY CHANGES
TEAM REPORT #3: THE VICTORIAN INTERNET
TEAM REPORT #4: PAST “HIGH” TECHNOLOGIES
TEAM REPORT #5: TECHNOLOGY DISASTER ANALYSIS
TEAM REPORT #6: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
SUGGESTED TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Team Report #1: Xerox PARC Case Study
Finding articles and company histories
Team Report #2: Why Technology Changes - James Burke's _Connections_
Videos located in the Chilton Media Library
Team Report #3: The Victorian Internet
The development of the electrical telegraph
Team Report #4: Past "High" Technologies
Topics: 1. Air conditioning; 2. Penicillin; 3. Photography; 4. Laser; 5. Glass lenses (telescope, microscope); 6. Railroad; 7. Phonograph; 8. Powered flight; 9. Telephone; 10. Radar
Team Report #5: Technology Disaster Analysis
1. Chernobyl (4-25-86); 2. Bhopal (12-3-84; also Bhophal and Bophal); 3. Columbia (2-1-03); 4. Hindenburg (5-6-37); 5. AA Flights 11 & 77; UAL Flights 93 & 175 (9-11-01); 6. Exxon Valdez (4-23-89); 7. Challenger (1-28-86); 8. Concorde (7-25-00); 9. Love Canal, N.Y. (4-78 to 9-79; also Times Beach, MO); 10. Oklahoma City Bombing (4-19-95); 11. Aswan High Dam.
Team Report #6: Emerging Technology Assessment
1. Nanotechnologies (nanobots, nanotubes); 2. Biometric technologies; 3. RFIDs; 4. Blue laser systems (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD); 5. Virtual augmentation systems (VA); 6. DIY genetic testing; 7. Intelligent agents; 8. Neural networks; 9. Fuzzy logic systems; 10. Massive grid computing
Suggested Technologies for Individual Research
Use the electronic database resources and UNT Libraries Online Catalog mentioned in previous team reports.
Business Computer Information Systems (BCIS) Subject Guide
Includes the ACM Digital Library, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Compendex, Computing Reviews Online, IEEE publications, Inspec Engineering Village, Gartner Core Research Services, INFORMS PubOnline, Safari Tech Books Online, ScienceDirect, SPIE Digital Library, Synergy (Blackwell), Web of Science, Wiley InterScience