Computer Science 1400:
Computing in the 20th Century and Beyond
(Winter 2017)

http://www.cs.mun.ca/~harold/Courses/CS1400/

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

Lecture Outline (Tentative)

• How We Got Here: Computing in the Past (6 weeks)
  (In the Beginning (pre-1940); The First Computers (1940-1955); The Rise of the Machines (1955-1970); The Personal Computer Revolution (1970-1990); The Wired Society (1990-now))
• Where We Are: Computing Now (4 weeks)
  (An examination of selected issues in current computing, e.g., life online, big data and privacy, robots and artificial intelligence)
• Where We're Going: Computing in the Future (1 week)

The lectures and displays (and all material) delivered or provided in this course by the instructor, including any visual or audio recording thereof, are subject to copyright owned by the instructor. It is prohibited to record or copy by any means, in any format, openly or surreptitiously, in whole or in part, in the absence of express written permission from the instructor any of the lectures or materials provided or published in any form during or from the course.

Evaluation Scheme

• There will be no supplementary exams. Marks for missed in-class exams (with appropriate documentation) will be averaged over the remaining exams at the instructor's discretion.

Textbook

• Campbell-Kelly, M, Aspray, W., and Ensmenger, N. (2013) Computer: A History of the Information Machine (3rd Edition). Westview Press.

Created: September 29, 2016
Last Modified: January 9, 2016