Course Title & Textbooks

INFSCI 2000: Introduction to Information Science
David G. Luenberger.  Information Science. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691124186. Required.
INFSCI 2040: Research Design
Paul R. Cohen, Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence; The MIT Press (August 3, 1995). ISBN: 0262032252/ ISBN-13: 9780262032254. Required.
Donald T. Campbell , Julian Stanley. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design for Research, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1 edition. ISBN-10: 0395307872; ISBN-13: 978-0395307878. Required.

INFSCI 2150: Introduction to Security
Matt Bishop. Introduction to Computer Security.Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0-201-44099-7. Required. (available online for Pitt Students)
INFSCI 2160: Data mining
Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank,Mark A. Hall. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, (New Third Edition) Morgan Kaufmann; (January 20, 2011) ISBN-10: 0123748569;ISBN-13: 978-0123748560. Recommended.

INFSCI 2170: Cryptography
Douglas R. Stinson. Cryptography: Theory and Practice. 3rd edition (November 1, 2005). CRC. ISBN-10: 1584885084; ISBN-13: 978-1584885085. Required.
C. Paar and J. Pelzl. Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners, Springer, 2009. Recommended.
INFSCI 2300: Human Information Processing
Doug Medin, Brian Ross, Arthur Markman. Cognitive Psychology. April 2004, ©2005. John Wiley & Sons. Hoboken, NJ. ISBN: 978-0-471-45820-3. Recommended.
INFSCI 2350: Human Factors in Systems
Wickens, C. and Hollands (2003) Engineering Psychology and Human Performance (3rd edition) ISBN10: 0321047117;ISBN13: 9780321047113.
INFSCI 2470: Interactive System Design
William M. Newman, Michael G. Lamming. Interactive System Design..Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1995, 468 pp. ISBN: 0201631628.
Clayton Lewis and John Rieman.Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction.. University of Colorado, Boulder, 1994.
INFSCI 2500 Data Structures
Kernighan & Ritchie. The C Programming Language: ANSI C Version.Second Edition; ISBN: 0131103628 (Required)
Robert Kruse, C.L. Tondo, Bruce Leung. Data Structures and Program Design in C Second Edition; Prentice Hall Publishers, ISBN: 0-13-288366-X (Recommended)
INFSCI 2510: Information Systems Analysis
Dean Leffingwell, Don Widrig. Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition. ISBN: 0-321-12247-X

INFSCI 2540: Software Engineering
Ian Sommerville. Software Engineering, 9th Ed., Addison-Wesley, 2010, ISBN-10: 0-13-703515-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-703515-1. Required.

INFSCI 2550: Client-Server Systems
Douglas E. Comer, David L. Stevens. Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III, Client-Server Programming and Applications- Linux/Posix Sockets Version (September 21, 2000) ISBN-10: 0130320714; ISBN-13: 978-0130320711. Required.
INFSCI 2560: Web Technologies & Standards
David Hunter, Jeff Rafter, Joe Fawcett, Eric van der Vlist, Danny Ayers, Jon Duckett, Andrew Watt, and Linda McKinnon. Beginning XML, 4th Edition (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback). Publisher: Wrox; 4 edition (May 21, 2007), Paperback: 1080 pages. ISBN-10: 0470114878, ISBN-13: 978-0470114872
INFSCI 2710: Database Management
Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke. Database Management Systems. 3d Edition, WCB/McGraw-Hill, 2002ISBN-10: 0072465638; ISBN-13: 978-0072465631. Required.
INFSCI 2739: Web Services & Distributed Computing
Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services [Hardcover] by Robert Daigneau Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (November 4, 2011) ISBN-10: 032154420X, ISBN-13: 978-0321544209  352 pages
INFSCI 2801:  Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)
Chor Pang Lo, Albert K. W. Yeung. Concepts and Techniques of Geographic Information Systems Prentice Hall; 2 edition (August 20, 2006) (Ph Series in Geographic Information Science) ISBN-10: 013149502X;ISBN-13: 978-0131495029
INFSCI 2809: Advanced Geospatial Information Systems
Chor Pang Lo, Albert K. W. Yeung. Concepts and Techniques of Geographic Information Systems Prentice Hall; 2 edition (August 20, 2006) (Ph Series in Geographic Information Science) ISBN-10: 013149502X;ISBN-13: 978-0131495029. Required.
INFSCI 2965: Seminars: Special Topics: Digital Scholarship
Christine L. Borgman. Scholarship in the Digital Age:Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. MIT Press. October 2007.ISBN-10:0-262-02619-8; ISBN-13:978-0-262-02619-2.