11.128 | Spring 2005 | Undergraduate

Information Technology and the Labor Market

Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Setting the Stage - Incomes, Occupations and Wages

2-3 Two Early Views of Computers’ Impacts

4-5 Does Technology Complement “Skill”?

6-7 Cognition I - Perceiving What Task is to be Done

8 IT and Tasks I: Rules Based Applications Including Expert Systems

9-10 IT and Tasks II: Pattern Recognition and Computer Learning

11

Computer Vision

Guest Lecture - Prof. Todd Zickler, Harvard University

Two-person paper proposal due
12

Computer Speech Recognition

Guest Lecture - Dr. T. J. Hazen, CSAIL, MIT

13 Implementing Computers and the Reorganization of Work

14

Radiology Imaging

Guest Lecture - Dr. Polina Golland, CSAIL, MIT (Subject to Change)

15 Implementing Computers and the Reorganization of Work (cont.)

16 Midterm Exam

17-19 Cognition II - What People Get Paid For: Expert Thinking and Complex Communication

20-21 IT and Markets

22 IT and Outsourcing

23

How Can Computers Substitute for/Complement Classroom Teachers?

Guest Lecture - Dr. Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service

24-25 IT and Productivity

26 Wrap-up

Course Info

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Spring 2005
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Lecture Notes
Problem Sets with Solutions
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