STS.035 | Spring 2004 | Undergraduate

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

Course Info

Instructor
As Taught In
Spring 2004
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments with Examples