Computer Science 1400:
Computing in the 20th Century and Beyond
(Winter 2015)

Instructor	Office	Office Hours	Lectures
Todd Wareham harold@mun.ca	EN-2034 864-4601	TBA	MWF, 10:00-10:50am EN-4034

• Course description
• Course outline
• Course diary
• Course marks (as of 11:45 am, Apr 1)

• On-line resources:
  • SCIENCE 1000 (Winter 2014)[Segment 5]: Computing in the 20th Century and Beyond
  • Timeline of Computer History
  • Computer History Timelines
  • The Modern History of Computing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • The History of Early Computing Machines from Ancient Times to 1981
  • IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
• Suggested Viewing (Documentaries)
  • The Machine that Changed the World (1992) [IMDB]
    • Part 1: Giant Brains
    • Part 2: Inventing the Future
    • Part 3: The Paperback Computer
    • Part 4: The Thinking Machine
    • Part 5: The World at Your Fingertips
  • Triumph of the Nerds (1996) [IMDB]
    • Part 1: Impressing Their Friends
    • Part 2: Riding the Bear
    • Part 3: Great Artists Steal
  • Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998) [IMDB]
    • Part 1: Networking the Nerds
    • Part 2: Serving the Suits
    • Part 3: Wiring the World
  • American Experience: Silicon Valley (2013) [IMDB]

Notices:

• March 25, 9:45am
  Class Exam #4 notes posted here. Note that the exam will be held on Wednesday, April 1, and not the date of Monday, March 31, originally stated in the course outline.

• March 6, 9:30am
  Class Exam #3 notes posted here.

• February 9, 8:15am
  Class Exam #2 notes posted here.

• January 19, 9:30am
  Class Exam #1 notes posted here.

• September 8, 11:10am
  Open for business!

Created: September 8, 2014
Last Modified: April 1, 2015