Informavores

An Informal Seminar
to discuss the headlines related to the "Information Age"

Profs. Marti Hearst and Howard Besser
Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, Fall 1997
South Hall, Room 110.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/informavores
Instructions for joining the seminar e-mail discussion list

Informavores is over for the semester. Happy Holidays!

Readings

Seminar Goals

Editorials and articles appear weekly in newspapers, magazines, web pages, and on the airwaves discussing topics such as Knowledge Workers, the Information Economy, Killer Apps, the Future of the Book, Data Mining, and Information Overload. The purpose of this seminar is to assess the merit, or lack thereof, of the ideas behind the hype. Informavores will be a weekly discussion of short, timely articles about ``The Information Age,'' drawing on expertise from a wide variety of disciplines.

This seminar is sponsored by SIMS, the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley, one of whose goals is to create a new, multi-disciplinary understanding of issues surrounding information technology and society. Along with SIMS students and faculty we strongly encourage participation from members of departments across campus, including but not limited to economics, computer science, business, law, public policy, cognitive science.

We will primarily make use of articles that are available online in order to avoid the need to distribute papers across campus. Participants will be expected to have read and/or printed out their own copies in advance. During the course of the semester we will work out more democratic mechanisms by which the topic articles will be chosen.

Instructions for Joining the Class Discussion List ("listserv")

The class e-mail dicussion list address is:
informavores@sims.berkeley.edu.
Messages sent to this address will be distributed to everyone in the class. The list is unmoderated. This means any message you send to the list will be immediately distributed to all list members without human intervention.

The discussion on the list will be archived on web pages accessible only to those who subscribe to the mailing list (unless there are objections to this).

To join the list, send an e-mail message to majordomo@sims.berkeley.edu with the phrase "subscribe informavores" in the body of the message (you can leave the Subject: line blank).

The list is restricted to students enrolled in the course. You will receive an immediate response stating that your subscription to the list must be approved. Once your subscription is approved, you will receive a welcome message containing important information about the list.

If you have difficulty in signing up and wish to obtain assistance from a live human being, send e-mail to owner-informavores@sims.berkeley.edu.

Alternatively, you can sign up via the Web by using the SIMS mailing list web form at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/webdomo

For questions about the seminar in general, send mail to hearst@sims.berkeley.edu

Last modifed by MAH, Dec 7, 1997