U n i v e r s i t é   Y O R K   U n i v e r s i t y FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE DIVISION OF NATURAL SCIENCE   NATS 1700 6.0 COMPUTERS,  INFORMATION  AND  SOCIETY   Professor Luigi M Bianchi                 Course Location :  ACW 005, Keele Campus First Class :  7:00 pm, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Office Hours :  by appointment only E-mail :  lbianchi@yorku.ca A Welcome to All Students in Natural Science :  From the Director of NATS News :  Always check this! Syllabus 1 :  Course Outline, Schedule of Lectures, Important Dates, Readings Lecture Outlines 2 :  Lecture Plans, Assignments, References Selected References 3 :  Particularly Relevant to the Course Academic Honesty :  Read Very Carefully, Please Copyright and Fair Use :  Read Very Carefully, Please Division of Natural Science :  General information on NATS. NATS-AID :  Student-Run Student-Support Network. —————— 1  The syllabus follows in part the recommendations included in the IFIP TC3 (Education Committee) and TC9 (Relationship between Computers and Society Committee) Joint Task Group's Report on  History in the Computing Curriculum.  This report appears in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ,  Vol. 21, No. 1, January-March 1999. 2  The outlines included in this website are, literally, only OUTLINES. They are NOT transcripts of the actual lectures ! To really benefit from the course (i.e. to earn a decent grade), you must read and study the outlines, use the Library, and attend classes. 3  Please check this list frequently, since from time to time I will add new references. —————— Acknowledgments :   I wish to thank Peter Anson, Charles Douglas, Joris Geertman, Roger Greenwald, Peggy Keall, Peter Roosen-Runge, Clint Ruoho, Amalia Syligardakis, Arun-Kumar Tripathi, and of course my students, for pointing out errors, and for their valuable comments and suggestions.   © Copyright Luigi M Bianchi 1999-2010 Last Modification Date: 10 March 2010