Graduate Information Science & Technology Program
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Course Title & Textbooks

INFSCI 2130: Decision Anal & Decisn Suprt Sys
Books: Robert Clemen, Making Hard Decisions: Introduction to Decision Analysis, Nelson Thomas Learning, 3rd Edition, 2005,ISBN: 053-4394299

 

INFSCI 2210: Information Ethics
Books: Stephen L. Carter. Integrity. HarperPerennial, New York, 1996. Paperback edition (ISBN  0-06-092807-7 (pb))
Dalai Lama. Ethics for the New Millennium. Penguin Group, New York, 1999. ISBN 1573228834
 

INFSCI 2300: Human Information Processing
Books: Medin, Ross, & Markman, Cognitive Psychology, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471458201 (Required text)

 

INFSCI 2350: Human Factors in Systems
Books: Introduction to Human Factors Engineering (2nd Edition) by Christopher D. Wickens, John D. Lee, Yili Liu, Sallie Gordon-Becker;Pearson Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey;ISBN# 0-13-183736-2
 

INFSCI 2460: Spatial Reasoning for GIS
Books: MF Worboys and M. Duckham, GIS:  A Computing Perspective, RC Press, 2nd Edition, 2004, ISBN: 0415283752  (Required text)

 
INFSCI 2500 (2610): Data Structures
Books: Data Structures and Program Design in C; Robert Kruse, C.L. Tondo, Bruce Leung; Second Edition; Prentice Hall Publishers, ISBN: 0-13-288366-X (Required)
The C Programming Language: ANSI C Version; Kernighan & Ritchie; Second Edition;ISBN: 0131103628;
 
INFSCI 2560 (2870): Web Technologies & Standards
Books: An Introduction to Xml And Web Technologies by Anders Moller, Michael I. Schwartzbach Addison Wesley Publishing Company (March 2006)  ISBN: 0321269667;
 
INFSCI 2591 (2611): Algorithm Design
Books: Algorithms by Richard Johnsonbauch and Marcus Schafer, Pearson Prentice Hall (2004)
 
INFSCI 2731 (2771): Security in E-Commerce
Books: Garfinkle, Simson, Web Security, Privacy and Commerce, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly, 2002. ISBN-10: 0596000456; ISBN-13: 978-0596000455;
 
INFSCI 2802 (2751) Internet-Based & Interoperable GIS
Books: Zhong-Ren Peng and Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Internet GIS: Distributed Geographic Information Services for the Internet and Wireless Networks, New York: John Wiley & Sons (2003).