Lecture 2 (November 4th)

Lecture 1

Yes, I got my CS degree in 1986

• IBM PC XT (info)
• IBM PC AT (info)
• Compaq Portable II (info)

For Starters

FREE Citation Management Software

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
  • For off campus use, get the York group code here.
  • FAQ and Instructions for various databases
  • RefWorks Tutorial
  • For ACM Digital Library & other databases like dblp, you can import from the bibtex format.
    • Use the References–>Import Feature

• Key points:

• Don’t forget to install Write-n-Cite on your PC. It’s in the Tools menu
• Also don’t forget to move items out of the “Last Imported” folder into the folder you create for your course
• Lastly, don’t forget to use “Edit citation” in the Write-n-cite application to get page numbers!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• What I suggest for this assignment: Citation Machine
  • use APA or MLA
  • Click on “More” to get conference paper form
• My search topics
  • women in computing
  • privacy in social networks
  • outsourcing of software development
  • biometric face recognition

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