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Internet Basics

The Internet is the backbone of the digital world. To understand the digital transformation in society, business and private live one needs to understand how Internet is working. To this end this prep course provides all the Internet basics. It explains the functioning of different types of computer networks and how such computer networks can be interconnected by means of intermediate systems and communication protocols of the TCP/IP stack to form an Internet.

  1. Course Start:

    (Self-paced)
  2. Estimated Effort:

    10:00 h/total

Internet Basics

About This Course

The Internet is the backbone of the digital world. To understand the digital transformation in society, business and private live one needs to understand how Internet is working. To this end the prep course provides the Internet basics.

The course explains the functioning of different types of computer networks and how such computer networks can be interconnected to form a virtually homogeneous net, the Internet. To this end intermediate systems like router and gateways are needed, and software, so-called communication protocols. The protocol stack that is used to form the Internet is the TCP/IP stack, consisting of protocols like IP, TCP, and a big number of application protocols like HTTP, SMTP, DNS, and many others which connect Internet applications and services like the WWW with the Internet.

Course Topics

  • Internet - the Net of Computer Networks
  • Computer Networks and How They Work
  • Types and Examples of Computer Networks
  • Internetworking
  • TCP/IP Protocol Stack

Required Skills

General IT knowledge.

Course Level

Basics

Target Group

Requirement for students to all study programs of the German UDS.

Effort

About 10 hours

Course Staff

Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

Christoph Meinel (Univ.-Prof., Dr.rer.nat., Dr.sc.nat., 1954) is the founding president of the German University of Digital Science, the first European digital university, and its learning platform German-UDS.academy. Until March 2023 he was for almost 20 years the managing and scientific director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH. There he developed and established the first European MOOC platform openHPI.de as a full professor (C4) for Informatics at the university of Potsdam with his chair for "Internet Technology and Systems" at the HPI. From 2017 to 2021 he was the founding dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam. His research interests are broadly diversified in the area of innovative Internet applications and systems, especially in digital education and e-learning, artificial intelligence and deep learning, and Internet and information security. He is also active in the field of innovation research and investigates the Stanford innovation method design thinking. In his former research work he was active in telemedicine, as well as in complexity theory and efficient OBDD-based algorithms and data structures. Christoph Meinel is a member of acatech, the national German Academy of Science and Engineering and has publish more than 800 peer reviewed scientific papers.

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