Project #1

Status (10/31/95)

Most of the papers have safely landed in my account and generally appear below (by link). I've already assigned grades and recorded them on the appropriate web page.

Topics

No related paper

I intend to randomly allocate topics to students this coming Tuesday (9/26) in class. Folks arriving late or not attending will have to draw from the remaining topics. {Well, actually we managed to sort of go first come, first served, but as long as everyone was more or less happy, what the heck.}

Resources

I expect your papers to draw heavily on publicly available information on the WWW. But I also expect you to find books or magazine articles related to the topic, and would prefer that you locate some folks (via usenet groups, e-mail or whatever) that have actually tried the application in question and can give you some sense of its ease of use, effectiveness, etc.

You also should give serious consideration (if the resources are available to you) of getting, installing and using the application in question.

Format

I expect papers to be at least (bare minimum) 3 pages, but likely closer to 5 (double-spaced, standard margins, standard type-face) pages of lucid & flowing text, plus references & list of cool web sites related to your topic.

You should address the following issues: 

	1) what is it?
	2) where can I get it?
	3) what does it do (re:security)?
	4) what can I use it with?
	5) what else must I use with it?
	6) does anybody really use it?

Submission

The project will be due Tuesday, October 24, 1995. You must prepare the text in two formats:

1) Standard paper (just like you've been always supposed to) {be sure to include name & other identifying information here}

2) As a readable (to me), beautifully formatted html document. Please include the bibliography, and make sure the links (to the source, documentation & any other info) are live! I will copy this into a world readable space, so only include your name (and other id) if you want the world to know what you've written.

Caveats

Remember that you and your classmates will use this information as reference material for the second class project. If the papers (and bibliographies) for project 1 are very well done, project 2 will be much easier.

Each paper should be an individually written effort, based on personal research. However, I strongly encourage you (all) to share and exchange web sites, usenet articles and other reference information. You shouldn't find it too hard to devise a scheme whereby any member of the class can recommend sites about various topics to their colleagues.