Computer Science 1400:
Computing in the 20th Century and Beyond
(Fall 2018)

Instructor	Office	Office Hours	Lectures
Todd Wareham harold@mun.ca	EN-2034 864-4601	TBA	MWF, 10:00-10:50am EN-1052

• Course outline
• Course diary
• Course marks (as of 1:45 pm, Nov 30)

• Home pages for previous offerings of this course:
  • Winter 2017 (Wareham)
  • Winter 2016 (Wareham)
  • 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 course textbook: Campbell-Kelly, M., Aspray, W., Ensmenger, N., and Yost, J.R. (2014) Computer: A History of the Information Machine (3rd Edition). Westview Press. [E-version]
• Suggested Viewing (Documentaries)
  • The Machine that Changed the World (1992) [IMDB]
  • Triumph of the Nerds (1996) [IMDB]
  • Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998) [IMDB]
  • American Experience: Silicon Valley (2013) [IMDB]

Notices:

• November 23, 11:45am
  Class Exam #4 notes posted here.

• November 19, 11:05am
  It's Coure Evaluation Questionnaire (CEQ) time again! Please fill in your online CEQ for this course by Tuesday, December 4, by following the intructions and links here. Remember: If you can't be kind, be constructive.

• October 31, 11:10am
  Class Exam #3 notes posted here.

• October 10, 1:25pm
  Class Exam #2 notes posted here.

• September 17, 4:15pm
  Class Exam #1 notes posted here.

• June 1, 9:45am
  Open for business!

Created: June 1, 2018
Last Modified: November 30, 2018