Computation. Overview. Bits and bytes. ASCII. Processors. Motherboards: connectors, ports, slots, and sockets and system bus. Memory: ROM, RAM, level-1 and -2 cache, secondary storage, and virtual memory.

Secondary storage: floppy disks; hard disks; CD-ROM discs; DVD-ROM discs; and recordable and rewriteable discs. Expansion buses and cards: PCI, AGP, ISA, and SCSI. Ports. I/O devices. Monitors: color depth, resolution, dot pitch, and refresh rate. Printers. How to shop for a computer. History.

It's the first of two movie nights for Computer Science E-1! A look at "how modern day visionaries Bill Gates and Steve Jobs changed the world" by way of Pirates of Silicon Valley, a dramatization of the history of Microsoft Corporation and Apple Computer, Inc.

Networks: clients and servers, peer-to-peer, piconets, (W)LANs and intranets, WANs and internets, the Internet, and domains. Email: addresses; IMAP, POP and SMTP; netiquette; spam; emoticons; snail mail; and listservs. SSH. The World Wide Web: URLs and HTTP. Blogs. Instant messaging. SFTP. Usenet.

Network topologies. Ethernet: NICs, cabling, hubs, and switches. Wireless: IR, Bluetooth, and 802.11. ISPs. Modems: dialup, cable, and DSL. The Internet: backbones, routers, TCP/IP, DHCP, and DNS. NAT.

We're not telling!

Graphics: file formats, bitmaps v. vectors, compression, and hardware acceleration. Audio: file formats and compression. Video (and audio): file formats and compression. Streaming. File sharing.

Threats to privacy: cookies, forms, logs, and data recovery. Security risks: packet sniffing, passwords, phishing, hacking, viruses and worms, and spyware. Piracy: WaReZ and cracking.

Defenses: scrubbing, firewalls, proxy servers, VPNs, cryptography, virus scanners, product registration and activation.

Webservers: structure, permissions, implementations, and www.people.fas.harvard.edu. Static webpages: XHTML, well-formedness, and validity. Dynamic webpages: SSIs, DHTML, CGI, ASPs, and JSPs.

Pseudocode. Constructs: instructions, variables, conditions, branches, and loops. Languages: interpreted and compiled. JavaScript.

Mr. Omri Traub, founder of Transformis L.L.C., joins us tonight for a talk on his experience running a small startup during the recent tech bubble.

It's the second of two movie nights for Computer Science E-1! A look at the rise and fall of the dotcom era by way of Startup.com, a documentary that traces the history of govWorks.com.

Where were you? Where are you? Where can you go?

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