A Computer Science special topics seminar on Social Web Technologies will be offered at UMBC this Spring and is open to both graduate and upper level undergraduate students. The course is CMSC 491s/691s and will meet MW 7:10-8:25pm. Enrolment will be limited. The instructor is Dr. Harry Chen, who received his Ph.D. from UMBC in 2004.

This seminar-style course will cover (1) how social web technologies such as blogs, social networking, social bookmarking, photo/video sharing and folksonomies can improve the productivity of people and (2) how to apply the latest Web technologies to create social web applications. For more information, see

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