The History of Computing

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction Course Overview
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
5	Computers in Mathematics: The Logic Theorist and the Automation of Proof	Reading response assignment due
6	Computers in Cognitive Psychology: GPS and Psychological Theory	Reading response assignment due
7	Computers in Biochemistry: DENDRAL and Knowledge Engineering	Reading response assignment due
8	Computers in Aerospace: The Apollo Guidance Computer	Reading response assignment due
9	Computers in the Laboratory: The LINC Between the Designer and the User	Proposal for final paper due
10	Computers in Medicine: MYCIN and the Formalization of Expertise	Reading response assignment due
11	Supercomputing at Home: A Social Experiment in Distributed Computing	Reading response assignment due
12	Computers in Linguistics: Lost in Machine Translation	Reading response assignment due
13	Computers in the Humanities: Hype, Text, and Hypertext	Reading response assignment due
14	Final Paper Presentations	Final paper due