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BCIS 5650: Emerging Information Technologies
Professor:
Dr. Richard G. Vedder
Office: 338H Business Administration Building
Telephone: (940) 565-3104
Fax: (940) 565-4935
EMail: Vedder@unt.edu
Business Library Liaison:
Jeffrey Levy
Research and Instructional Services Department
Room 084
Willis Library
940-565-2013
Jeffrey.Levy@unt.edu
CLASS TEAM REPORTS:
TEAM REPORT #1: XEROX PARC CASE STUDY
TEAM REPORT #2: WHY TECHNOLOGY CHANGES -- James Burke's Connections
TEAM REPORT #3: THE VICTORIAN INTERNET
TEAM REPORT #4: PAST DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
TEAM REPORT #5: TECHNOLOGY DISASTER ANALYSIS
TEAM REPORT #6: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
INDIVIDUAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
Books on Reserve for BCIS 5650
Dr. Vedder has placed these books on Reserve in Willis Library.
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 Disruptive Technologies
Topics: 1. Air conditioning; 2. Penicillin; 3. Dreadnought; 4. ATM; 5. Aircraft carrier; 6. Vitascope; 7. Railroad; 8. Powered flight; 9. Telephone; 10. Radar (incl. Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Solomon Islands naval battles)
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. Air France Flight 447 (June 1, 2009); 6. Exxon Valdez (3-23-89); 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)
Team Report #6: Emerging Technology Assessment
1. Molecular manufacturing; 2. Biometric technologies; 3. RFIDs; 4. Thin-film video, ex. Video-in-Print; 5. High-rise urban farming; 6. Advanced clinical information technology; 7. Intelligent agents; 8. Neural networks; 9. e-Books; 10. Domestic-servant robotics
Individual Technology Assessment
Use the electronic database resources and UNT Libraries Online Catalog mentioned in previous team reports.
UNT Libraries Electronic Resources in BCIS
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