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Introduction
Course Overview |
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| 2 |
Issues in the History of Computing |
Reading response assignment due |
| 3 |
Computers in Nuclear Physics: ENIAC and the Hydrogen Bomb |
Reading response assignment due |
| 4 |
Computers in Meteorology: Simulating the World |
Reading response assignment due |
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Computers in Mathematics: The Logic Theorist and the Automation of Proof |
Reading response assignment due |
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Computers in Cognitive Psychology: GPS and Psychological Theory |
Reading response assignment due |
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Computers in Biochemistry: DENDRAL and Knowledge Engineering |
Reading response assignment due
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| 8 |
Computers in Aerospace: The Apollo Guidance Computer |
Reading response assignment due |
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Computers in the Laboratory: The LINC Between the Designer and the User |
Proposal for final paper due |
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Computers in Medicine: MYCIN and the Formalization of Expertise |
Reading response assignment due |
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Supercomputing at Home: A Social Experiment in Distributed Computing |
Reading response assignment due |
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Computers in Linguistics: Lost in Machine Translation |
Reading response assignment due |
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Computers in the Humanities: Hype, Text, and Hypertext |
Reading response assignment due |
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Final Paper Presentations |
Final paper due |