For all students to read:

• The convergence of communications and computing: What are the implications today? (not necessary to read section 4)
• Dynamic Deployment of Peer-to-Peer Networked Applications to Existing World-Wide Web Browsers
• SUN'S JAVA: THE THREAT TO MICROSOFT IS REAL

The following are tutorials on other important emerging software technologies:

• Software Agents: An Overview
• The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide (read Chapter 2, available off this page)

Optional readings:

• The National Information Infrastructure: the Internet and Beyond. This is the report that defines the three-level architecture described in the talk. It is a good reference outlining future issues for the Internet.
• City of Bits. This is an interesting prediction of the societal impacts of the Internet, and also an interesting case of a dynamic book published on the WWW.