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Introduction |
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| 2 |
Medieval and Renaissance Cosmology and Clockwork |
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| 3 |
The Industrial Revolution and Calculating Engines: Analytics of Capital and Gender Difference in the Work of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace |
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| 4 |
World War Two: Cybernetics, Communication, and Control |
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| 5 |
The Cold War: Coding and Closing the World |
Paper 1 due |
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Artificial Intelligence and the Construction of Cognition and Gender |
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| 7 |
Artificial Life |
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| 8 |
Postcolonial Recalculations: Legacies of African Mathematical Systems |
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| 9 |
Computing Counterculture: Hacking and Gaming from PC to Internet |
Paper 2 due |
| 10 |
Properties of Identity and Collectivity in Cyberspace: Gender, Race, Nation, Opensource
Guest Lecturer: Anita Chan |
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| 11 |
The Materiality of Networking |
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| 12 |
DNA Computing |
Paper 3 due |