Learn about the internet, the world's largest computer network.

Learn the basics of computer networks.

Wikipedia offers the definition of the term, "Computer network," including the range, functional relationship, topologies, functions, and protocals.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of computer networks.

Learn about the physical connections in computer networking.

A comprehensive glossary on networking terms.

A student team activity that demonstrates an approach to parallel sorting, or how much computation can be done at the same time. It can be done on paper, but the lesson becomes more meaningful if the students do it on a large scale,...

Learn that the internet is a network of computers connected to each other. But what does each physical connection look like? It depends on the needs of the connection and the size of the network.

Read all about computer networks. Then take an interactive quiz to test your understanding.

This MIT course on network and computer security covers topics such as security in multi-user distributed systems, cryptography, authentication, intrusion detection, and many other security topics.

This site contains information about establishing and maintaining a secure home computer network, with an emphasis on Windows-based operation systems.

Wikipedia gives an excellent encyclopedia definition of a Personal Area Network for the computer, or PAN.

Wikipedia provides an encyclopedia definition of a local area network, or LAN, including many hyperlinked terms.

Informative, fun, and humorous tutorial that uses cartoon characters to provide an introduction to information technology. The tutorial covers operating systems/desktops, email, the world wide web, and networks.

Steiner trees are another way to approach finding efficient networks between points. This is another tough problem from computer science, converted into an activity which is easy to explain, with variations suitable for higher-level...

This puzzle shows students the decisions involved in linking a network between houses in a muddy city. It can lead on to a discussion of minimal spanning tree algorithms for optimizing networks.

Information on connecting Mac and Windows machines to an Ethernet network. Click on icons for specific information and settings.

Learn about IP packets in computer networking.

Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including...

To get a better understanding of complex networks, students create their own, real social network example by interacting with their peers in the classroom and documenting the interactions. They represent the interaction data as a graph,...

Young scholars learn what information makes up a protocol for bits of information added to messages to make sure they are sent over the internet.

Learn how computers split messages into packets and those packets hop from router to router on the way to their destination.

The concept of sensor data as related to a sensor network is examined and its applications.

Students simulate a server and are connected via computer networks. Representatives from each table act as routers, and as they write messages to each other, the routers help route these messages.