Science 1000, Fall '16
Course Diary (Wareham):
Computing in the 20th Century and Beyond:
A Survival Guide
Copyright 2016 by H.T. Wareham
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Week 1,
Week 2,
Week 3,
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Friday, October 14 (Lecture #1)
- Introduction to SCIENCE 1000: Content and Logistics
- Getting Here: The First Computers (pre-1940) (Slides)
Monday, October 17 (Lecture #2)
- Getting Here: The First Computers (pre-1940) (Cont'd)(Slides)
- Getting Here: The Rise of the Machines (1940-1970) (Slides)
- Suggested Reading:
- Suggested Viewing (Documentaries)
- Suggested Viewing (Movies):
Wednesday, October 19 (Lecture #3)
- Getting Here: The Rise of the Machines (1940-1970) (Cont'd)(Slides)
- Getting Here: The Networked Society (1970-now) (Slides)
- Suggested Reading:
- Campbell-Kelly et al (2014), Chapters 10-12
- Ceruzzi (2012)
- Cringely (1996)
- Freiberger and Swain (2000)
- Rheingold (1985)
- Segaller (1998)
- Suggested Viewing (Documentaries)
- Suggested Viewing (Movies)
Friday, October 21 (Lecture #4)
- Getting Here: The Networked Society (1970-now) (Cont'd) (Slides)
- Suggested Viewing (Documentaries)
- Suggested Viewing (Movies)
- Where We Are: Big Data and Privacy (Slides)
- Links of interest:
- Suggested Reading:
- Suggested Viewing (Youtube):
- Suggested Viewing (Movies):
Monday, October 24 (Lecture #5)
- Where We Are: Big Data and Privacy (Cont'd)
- Where We Are: Artificial Intelligence
(Slides)
- Links of interest:
- Suggested Reading:
- Suggested Viewing (Youtube):
- Suggested Viewing (Movies):
Wednesday, October 26 (Lecture #6)
- Where We Are: Artificial Intelligence (Cont'd)
- Where We're Going: The Wild Blue Yonder (Slides)
- Links of interest:
- Suggested Reading:
- boyd (2014)
- Forster (1909) The Machine Stops
- Ito et al (2010)
- Rheingold (2000, 2012)
- Shea (1994)
- Turkle (1984, 1997, 2011)
- Zuckerberg (2013)
- BBC News: BBC poll: Web brings more freedom and more surveillance
- BBC News: Internet of Things: The `ghosts' that haunt the machine
- BBC News: When governments attack -- online
- BBC News: Beyond human: How I became a cyborg
- BBC News: The greatest mistranslations ever
- BBC News: Secret tweets, public fallout?
- BBC News: The biggest myth about phone privacy
- BBC News: Facebook rolls out feature for users when they die
- BBC News: Google's Vint Cerf warns of 'digital Dark Age'
- BBC News: Digital skills should be core subjects, says report
- BBC News: Does the digital era herald the end of history?
- BBC News: Are computers making our lives too easy?
- BBC News: Losing focus: Why tech is getting in the way of work
- BBC News: Is cyber-warfare really that scary?
- BBC News: Computers 'do not improve' pupil results, says OECD
- BBC News - Virtual reality: The hype, the problems and the promise
- BBC News - Net overload 'sparks digital detox for millions of Britons'
- BBC News - US couple sues IP mapping firm over 'digital hell'
- BBC News - Ari Shaffir: Why I ditched my smartphone
- BBC NBews - Where in the world is my data and how secure is it?
- BBC News - Is parenting tech making mums and dads more paranoid?
- BBC News - There's no such thing as flexible work
- BBC News - Think before you overshare. Yes, it can get you fired
- BBC News - Driverless taxis' human problem
- BBC News - Tech inspired by faith booms in Africa
- BBC News - Cybathlon: World's first 'bionic Olympics' gears up
- BBC News - 'Lewd acts' force changes to New York wi-fi kiosks
- BBC News - Customers 'bewildered and fearful' about use of their data
- BBC News - Listening to the music of Turing's computer
- BBC News - Has the US just given away the internet?
- BBC News - Hack warnings prompt cyber 'security fatigue'
- BBC News - Saya: Big ambitions for Japanese 'digital daughter'
- BBC News - Cybathlon: Battle of the bionic athletes
- BBC News - What if there were more women in tech?
- BBC News - Why the US fears Russia is hacking its presidential election
- BBC News - Russian social media site set up for pets
- BBC News - The surprisingly easy way to visit Mars
- BBC News - Canadians want more done to curb abuse on social media
- BBC News - 'Smart' home devices used as weapons in website attack
- BBC News - Sex, honour, shame and blackmail in an online world
- BBC News - Your Facebook sharing can reveal hidden signals about you
- BBC News - Why the forgotten Soviet internet was doomed from the start
Friday, October 28
References
- Beyer, K. (2009) Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information
Age. The MIT Press.
- boyd, d. (2014) It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens.
Yale University Press.
- Campbell-Kelly, M., Aspray, W., Ensmenger, N., and Yost, J.R. (2014) Computer: A
History of the Information Machine (3rd Edition). Westview Press.
- Ceruzzi, P.E. (2012) Computing: A Concise History. The MIT Press.
- Cringely, R.X. (1996) Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon
Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still
Can't Get a Date (Revised Edition). HarperBusiness.
- Freiberger, P. and Swaine, M. (2000) Fire in the Valley: The Making of the
Personal Computer (Collectors Edition). McGraw-Hill.
- Gries, D.A. (2005) When Computers were Human. Princeton University Press.
- Ito, M. et al (2010) Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking
Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. The MIT Press.
- Levy, S. (2001) Crypto: How the Code Rebels beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age.
Viking; New York.
- Rheingold, H. (1985) Tools for Thought: The History and Future of
Mind-expanding Technology. The MIT Press.
- Rheingold, H. (2000) The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the
Electronic Frontier (Revised Edition). The MIT Press.
- Rheingold, H. (2012) Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. The MIT Press.
- Segaller, S. (1998) Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet.
TV Books.
- Shea, V. (1994) Netiquette. Albion Books: San Francisco, CA.
- Turkle, S. (1984) The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. The
MIT Press.
- Turkle, S. (1997) Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet.
Simon & Schuster.
- Turkle, S. (2011) Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and
Less from Each Other. Basic Books.
- Vargas, J.A. (2010) "The Face of Facebook." The New Yorker, 20.
(PDF)
- Williams, M.R. (1997) A History of Computing Technology (2nd Edition). IEEE Press:
Los Alamitos, CA.
- Zuckerberg, R. (2013) Dot.Complicated: Untangling our Wired Lives.
Harperone.
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Last Modified: October 27, 2016