Computer Science 1400:
Computing in the 20th Century and Beyond
(Winter 2016)

Instructor	Office	Office Hours	Lectures
Todd Wareham harold@mun.ca	EN-2034 864-4601	TBA	MWF, 10:00-10:50am EN-1051

• Course outline
• Course diary
• Course marks (as of 2:55 pm, Apr 6)

• Home pages for previous offerings of this course:
  • Winter 2015 (Wareham)

• On-line resources:
  • Timeline of Computer History
  • A Timeline of How Computers Changed 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 30, 1:50am
  Class Exam #4 notes posted here.

• March 28, 9:45am
  It's Coure Evaluation Questionnaire (CEQ) time again! Please fill in your online CEQ for this course by Sunday, April 10, by following the intructions and links here. Remember: If you can't be kind, be constructive.

• March 2, 11:45am
  Class Exam #3 notes posted here.

• February 1, 5:15pm
  Class Exam #2 notes posted here.

• January 15, 11:30am
  Class Exam #1 notes posted here.

• January 6, 1:55pm
  Lecture room has been switched from EN-1004 to EN-1051.

• September 25, 3:3pm
  Open for business!

Created: September 25, 2015
Last Modified: September 20, 2016