cs210COMPUTING
AND
CULTURE
Brian
M. O'Connell, Maria Sanford Room 205, oconnellb@ccsu.edu
Fall 2002: Monday and Wednesday 2:00-3:15
PM
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Date | Topic | Assignment | References |
Week One [09/04] | Introduction | None | N/A |
Week Two | Overview
Reading & Understanding Tech. Literature Ancient and Medieval Beginnings |
Davis - Introduction | Resources |
Week Three | Computing as Ideal
Early Psychological and Social Change Descartes, Leibniz and friends |
Davis - Chapter One | Early Computing |
Week Four
|
Computing as Language
George Boole, Mathematics & Philosophy |
Davis - Chapter Two | Early Computing |
Week Five
|
Online Research
Guest lectures on online scholarship/writing |
TBA | Resources |
Week Five
Assignment #1 Due -- 10/09 |
Computing as Process
Frege & Cantor |
Davis - Chapters Three & Four | Computation
Historical Aspects |
Section II: MANIFESTATION
Date | Topic | Assignment | References |
Week Seven
|
Digital Prelude
Hilbert & Godel |
Davis - Chapters Five & Six | Computation
Historical Aspects |
Week Eight | Digital Application
Alan Turing |
Davis - Chapter Seven
+Video: Breaking the Code |
Computation |
Week Nine
Assignment #2 Due -- 11/04 |
Early Computing | Davis - Chapter Eight | Historical Aspects |
Week Ten | Networked Computing | Cerf et al. - Brief History | Community
Network Behavior |
Section III: COALESCENCE AND CONFLICT
Date | Topic | Assignment | References |
Week Eleven
Assignment #3 Due -- 11/13 |
AI - Introduction | SciAm - pp. 1-28
Turing Game: Press Release optional: Turing Game |
AI |
Week Twelve | AI - Theories | SciAm - pp. 30-59 | AI |
Week Thirteen
Assignment #4 Due -- 11/27 |
AI - Cutting Edge | SciAm - pp. 60-88 | AI |
Week Fourteen | Robotics | SciAm - pp. 90-114 | Robotics |
Week Fifteen | Robotics | SciAm - pp, 114-139 | Robotics |
These are selected books, articles
& Web sites referred to in class lectures. They may be helpful
to your papers
and presentations. They will
be updated throughout the course.
Aesthetics, Graphics, Media and Information
Design
LINK Computers
and the Intuitive Edge: An Introduction to Computers for the Visual Thinker
LINK Computer
Graphics World
LINK History
of Computers and Art
LINK Intelligent
Agent: Interactive Media & Art in Education
LINK MIT
Media Lab
LINK MkzdK
LINK Pixart
LINK SIGGRAPH:
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics
AI and Artificial Life
AI:
LINK The
History of A.I.
artificial life:
LINK Santa
Fe Institute
LINK Tom
Ray's Home Page
online programs:
LINK Eliza
in Java
LINK Loebner
Prize Page
LINK Mauldin:
Chatterbots, Tinymuds, And The Turing Test: Entering The Loebner Prize
Competition
LINK MEGAHAL,
HEX & SEPO
LINK Talk
to Nisse
Architecture
LINK GVU
Graphics, Visualization and Usibility Center
LINK Salon
- Machine Language
Community / Sociology / Cultural Theory
LINK Center
for Global Communication
LINK Community
Networks - Bibliography
LINK CTHEORY
LINK Cultronix
LINK Cybercultures
LINK Cybersociology
Magazine
LINK Digital
Portals
LINK Electronic
Learning Communities Research Group
LINK Links
for Cyber-Sociologists
LINK The
Matrix by David S. Bennahum
LINK Net-Life
Resources
LINK PLATO:
The Emergence of an Online Community
LINK Resource
Center for Cybercultural Studies
LINK UCLA
Center for the Study of Online Communities
LINK U
of Iowa: Community Links
LINK Virtual
Denizen
Cybernetics
LINK Principia
Cybernetica Web
Early Computing History
Davis, Martin. The
Universal Computer, New York: Norton (2000)
Founders:
LINK Rene
Descartes 1596 - 1650
LINK Blaise
Pascal 1623 - 1662
LINK Gottfried
Wilhelm von Leibniz 1646 - 1716
LINK Sophie,
Duchess of Brunswick 1630 - 1714
LINK Sophie
Charlotte, Queen Consort of Prussia 1668 - 1705
LINK Joseph-Marie
Jacquard 1752-1834
Babbage & Ada: Countess of
Lovelace
LINK Charles
Babbage Biography
LINK The
Analytical Engine Page - Fourmilab
LINK Ada
Byron King, Countess of Lovelace - TAP:
The Ada Project
LINK Ada
Picture Gallery
LINK Selection
and Adaptation From Ada's Notes - Betty Alexandra Toole
LINK Mary
Fairfax Somerville
Logicians & Inventors
LINK George
Boole 1815 - 1864
LINK Herman
Hollerith 1860 - 1929
LINK Kurt
Godel 1906 - 1978
Turing: modern era
LINK Alan
Turing Home Page
LINK Turing
Machine in Java
Historical & Social Aspects of Technological
Change
Eliade, Mircea. The
Sacred and the Profane, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1959).
Bijker, Hughes and Pinch, The
Social Construction of Technological Systems, Cambridge: MIT Press
(1994).
Goldstine, Herman. The Computer
from Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
(1972).
Mahoney, Michael S. "The History
of Computing in the History of Technology." Annals of the History of Computing
10 (1988): 113-125.
Mitcham, Carl. Thinking
Through Technology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1994).
LINK The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
Informatics
LINK Berkeley
Internet Search Tool Details
Interfaces
Gerver, Elisabeth. Humanizing
Technology. New York: Plenum Press, (1985).
Heim, Michael. The Metaphysics
of Virtual Reality, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1993).
Winograd, Terry and Fernando
Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, (1987).
LINK An
Unofficial History of Graphical User Interfaces
LINK TheBrain.com
LINK A
Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology
LINK CMU
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
LINK History
of the Interface in Interactive Art
LINK Human-Computer
Interaction Institute @ CMU
LINK Ivan
Sutherland Profile
LINK Macintosh
Human Interface guidelines
LINK MouseSite:
History of Human-Computer Interaction [Many Documents
Online]
LINK THE
RISE OF THE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
LINK Xerox
Alto Archive
The Internet
LINK A
Brief History of the Internet
LINK C\NET
Article: How the Net Works
Modern Computer History
Glass, Robert. In the Beginning:
Recollections of Software Pioneers. IEEE Computer Society (1998).
Shasha, Dennis & Lazere,
Cathy. Out of Their Minds: The Lives of 15 Great Computer Scientists.
Copernicus Press (1995).
profiles: early modern era
LINK Vannevar Bush: Memex
and Beyond Web Site
LINK Alan Turing: The
Turing Project
profiles: contemporaries
LINK John Backus: Biography
LINK Frederick P. Brooks: Biography
Page
LINK Stephen Cook: Web
Page
LINK Edsger Dijkstra: Information
LINK W. Daniel Hillis: Edge
Biography
LINK Alan Kay Biographical
Information
LINK Donald Knuth: Home
Page
LINK Leslie Lamport: Biography
Page
LINK Leonid Levin: Home
Page
LINK John McCarthy's Home
Page
LINK Michael Rabin: Research
Profile
LINK Burton Smith: From
Here to Petaflops
LINK Robert Tarjan: Home
Page
LINK Tom Van Vleck: Home
Page
general sites
LINK The
Computer Art Museum [In Russian]
LINK The
Computer Museum
LINK IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing
LINK Los
Alamos Computing Site
LINK Milestones
in Computer Development
LINK Past
Notable Women in Computing and Mathematics
LINK Smithsonian
Computer History Site
software
LINK Smalltalk.org
LINK Software
History Center
Network Behavior and Life Online
Dertouzos, Michael L. and others.
"Communications, Computers, and Networks: Special Issue." Scientific American
265 (1991): 62-164.
Katz, James and Aspden, Philip.
"A Nation of Strangers." Communications of the ACM 40 (12 1997): 81.
Kling, Rob and Suzanne Iacono.
"Computing as an Occasion for Social Control." Journal of Social Issues
40 (3 1984): 77-96.
Kling and Scacchi. "The Web
of Computing: Computing Technology as Social Organization." Advances in
Computers 21 (1982): 3-85.
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the
Screen, New York: Simon and Schuster (1995).
Turkle, Sherry. The Second
Self, New York: Simon and Schuster (1984).
Turkley and Seymour Papert.
"Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices Within the Computer Culture."
Signs 16 (1 1990): 128-157.
Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer
Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation. San Francisco:
W. H. Freeman (1976.).
Zuboff, Shosahana. In
the Age of the Smart Machine, New York: Basic Books (1988).
profiles
LINK A
Portrait of J. Random Hacker
LINK The
Story of Mel
LINK Sherry
Turkle's Home Page
sites
LINK Journal
of Online Behavior
LINK The
Psychology of Cyberspace
LINK Psychology
of Virtual Communities
Perspectives
LINK Extropy
Institute
LINK Gnosticism
Web Resources
LINK U
of Iowa: Technology, Postmodernism and Other Stuff (essays, etc)
Simulations, Virtual Worlds and Gaming
LINK AU+AU
Collision Simulator / Gallery at BNL
LINK Walt
Bilofsky's home page [Chess3000]
LINK NCSA
Virtual Director
LINK Spacewar
Demo
LINK Spacewar
Info. Site
LINK Video
Arcade Preservation Society
muds, moos, etc.
LINK The
Colossal Cave Adventure Site
LINK Connected
Community and Inhabited Information Spaces
LINK Educational
Virtual Reality Sites Listing
LINK Journal
of Virtual Environments
LINK MediaMOO
LINK MUD-
History of claimed world's first MUD
LINK MUD
Connector
LINK Don
Woods [Adventure]
LINK XYZZY
News for Interactive Fiction Enthusiasts
LINK Yahoo
List of MUDS, MOOS, etc.
General Resources
search engines
LINK Nueva
- Best Search Engine Guide
LINK Altavista.com
LINK Go.com
LINK Google
LINK Hotbot-Lycos.com
LINK Librarian's
Index to the Internet
LINK Northern
Light
LINK Yahoo
internet sources
LINK Internet
Scout - Net Happenings
LINK Internet
Scout - Weekly Report