15.972 Special Seminar in Management Frontiers of Internet E-Business: Introduction to Semantic Web and Web Services Prof. Benjamin Grosof Mon Jan 27, Tue Jan 28, 09am-05:30pm, E51-376 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 50 participants. Listeners allowed, space permitting. Prereq: Permission of instructor Open to undergrads, grad students, and all IT-oriented. Level: H 3 units Graded P/D/F. The Internet is currently undergoing a radical change to a major next generation of Web technology based on XML and knowledge bases, which will enable much broader and deeper kinds of automatic interactions between enterprises/applications. What is this new wave of technology? What are the implications for e-business? What is all the excitement in industry and research worlds really about -- what are "the Semantic Web" and "Web Services"? This course will provide an introduction, exploring techniques, applications, and challenges, and including emerging standards and strategy considerations. Technical areas drawn upon include artificial intelligence, databases, Internet communications, and software engineering. The course will include extensive seminar-form discussion, as well as tutorial-form presentations by instructors/guests. Students will write a short paper (3-5 pages) exploring a frontier area of individual interest. Attendance at each session is required unless previously arranged. All students who wish to participate should send e-mail to course assistant Yubettys Baez (ybaez@mit.edu) by December 8, cc'ing Benjamin Grosof (bgrosof@mit.edu), and indicating MIT department, program, and year. Web: http://www.mit.edu/~bgrosof Contact: Yubettys Baez, ybaez@mit.edu Sponsor: Sloan School of Management