6.Completed coursework covering:

’ΔΆdigital vs. analog representations and computation
’ΔΆnumber systems (decimal, binary, octal, hexadecimal)
’ΔΆalgorithms vs. heuristics
’ΔΆdata flow vs. flow of control
’ΔΆdata structures (named vs. anonymous; static vs. dynamic)
’ΔΆmodels of computation
’ΔΆobject orientation (encapsulation, object identity, etc.)
’ΔΆcomputational complexity
’ΔΆboolean and relational algebras
’ΔΆunstructured IR query forms
’ΔΆinformation retrieval models (boolean, vector, etc.)
’ΔΆlexical analysis and term-weighting methods
’ΔΆapplication of similarity measures to texts
’ΔΆIR effectiveness measures (recall, precision, etc.)
’ΔΆsubject searching vs. citation searching vs.   hypermedia navigation
’ΔΆmetadata standards and protocols (e.g., RDF)

(proposed pre-requisites provided by Dave Dubin)