Archive for the ‘Computing, Information, and the Future’ Category

Wednesday September 9, 2009 10:00

CompInfoFuture Homework 3: The Delphi Method

1. If your question was one of those that the class used the Delphi method on, find the median and the range of the middle 50% of the responses. Using a graphics editor of your choice (even paint works for this), make a graph that is analogous or similar to the one in the lecture [...]

Wednesday September 2, 2009 16:55

CompInfoFuture Homework 2: Predictions

Part 1 Consider the different methods of making predictions that we went over in class. Pick the topic of your choice, apply them to that topic, and make some predictions about the future. You may focus on one scenario, or discuss alternative scenarios as well. You may write speculatively, or ground your discussion in facts [...]

Wednesday August 26, 2009 13:15

CompInfoFuture Homework 1: Resources

For fall semester 2009, I’m enrolled in a bunch of higher-level Information Science courses at UALR. One of these is Dr. Berleant‘s “Computing, Information, and the Future” class, a special-topics class being taught the first time this semester. For the first homework assignment, we were tasked with setting up a blog (or integrating course content [...]