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CS907 - Wireless Electronic Commerce: A Course in Emerging Technology and Invention
Prof. Thomas P. Cahill
Summer 2004 X Session
E-mail: tcahill@duke.poly.edu or cahillt3@msn.com
Course Abstract
Wireless Electronic Commerce (or alternatively Mobile Electronic Commerce) barely exists as a "school subject" (although this will be the third year it has been taught at Poly). In this course Instructor and Student will work together to synthesize an understanding of the next technological "Paradigm Shift." We will examine the existing and near term "technological enablers" that will facilitate the conceptualization and piloting of real world products and services. Given this understanding we will examine the possibility of creating (or perhaps "capturing" or "claiming") some intellectual property in this comparatively virgin realm. The course will co-ordinate with the recently formed WICAT (Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology) at Polytechnic and Columbia.
Sessions
- Emerging Technology - a Black Art? The ET Practitioner, "Technology Forecasting," Paradigm Shifts; Pre-Electronic Commerce; Extreme Programming Paradigm and SCRUM management methodology; Intellectual Property and Confidentiality of the Classroom: Creation of Teams
- Push and Pull Models of Technological Change. The Industrial Revolution and Mechanical Technology; The Communications/Computer Revolution and Electronic Technology (1): Telegraph, Telephone, Wireless Radio, Broadcast Radio, Broadcast Television, Cable Television; Electronic Commerce I: Communications, Content, The Birth and Evolution of Advertising
- The Communications/Computer Revolution and Electronic Technology (2): Computer, Timeshared Computing, "Online Computing," Networked Computing and the Internet; Electronic Commerce II: EDI and Financial Networks
- The Communications/Computer Revolution and Electronic Technology (3): WWW and Browser: 1945 - Vannevar Bush and the Memex; 1995 - James Bezos and Amazon.com; Electronic Commerce III: Paradigms of Success: AOL, Yahoo and the "Portal," Ebay, Etoys and Fulfillment - Christmas '99
- Security Technology for the Wireless World: A Past of Hacking - A Future of Security? Special Place of Elliptic Curve (non RSA) Public Key Cryptography in Wireless; Certicom
- The Gartner "Hype Cycle" and the Life Cycle of New Technologies; Hype Cycles for the Internet Electronic Commerce and the Electronic Marketplace. Market in Internet Stocks 9/99 to present.
- Evolution of Wireless and Mobile Technology (1) Conflicting Standards and Technologies; Collapse of Iridium; the Wireless Menagerie: WLAN, wireless telephony and messaging, wireless Internet, Bluetooth, RFID, IrDA.
- Evolution of Wireless and Mobile Technology (2) Convergence of the Cellphone, the Beeper and the PDA; Possible Guest Lecture; Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
- The Wireless Lifestyle(s) - Defining New Opportunity Spaces; The Processes of Invention and Innovation; The Patent Process and the Creation and Protection of Intellectual Property; the Chase "Push Banking" Patent Application; 1 Hour In Class Mid-Term
- TRIZ Session: Extending Our Understanding of Future Evolution
- Brainstorm Session I: Inventing Technology, Products and Services for the Wireless Future
- Brainstorm Session II: Inventing Technology, Products and Services for the Wireless Future
