MIS 140 -- Technical Aspects of Information Systems
Fall Semester, 2009
Supplemental Resources

• Bits & bytes and boolean logic and electronic circuitry
• Microprocessors & BIOS
• Memory, RAM, & Cache
• Motherboards & Chipsets
• Hard disk drives (working, disk crash, defragging)
• CD-ROMs
• Graphics card and monitor

• History
• Hardware requirements
• Structure
• Samples
• Processes and threads
• CPU scheduling
• Concurrency
• Deadlocks
• Memory management
• Virtual memory
• File systems
• Resource protection
• Viruses and worms
• Multi-computers
• Distributed file systems 

• TCP/IP tutorial
• Domain Name Servers
• Ethernet
• Network Address Translation
• Routers
• LAN switches

• http://www.webteacher.com/javascript/(Javascript for the total non-programmer)
• http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/
• http://www.echoecho.com/javascript.htm
• http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/bridge/1998/res/javascript/javascript-tutorial.html

• InformationWeek
• eWeek
• Computerworld
• Information Today
• Technology pages of Business Week
• Small Business Computing
• CNET News dot com
• CIO
• Computer Business Review Online
• Federal Computer Week
• Wired News
• ACM's TechNews
• TechWeb: The Business Technology Network
• Red Herring
• TechWorld
• Slashdot