NATS 1700 6.0 COMPUTERS,  INFORMATION  AND  SOCIETY SELECTED REFERENCES   The AI Dictionary. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~billw/aidict.html Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Wisdom - Or An Outsider's Guide to Artificial Intelligence. An overview of AI on the WWWeb, this provocative and opinionated short course is richly linked to useful net resources. http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/index.html AskTec - "Founded by a team of former Executive Managers of the Gartner Group in August of 1999, TechnologyEvaluation.com and AskTEC.com have become one of the most popular technology content and search tools on the Internet...AskTEC.com is a technology vertical metasearch engine that provides access not only to content from TechnologyEvaluation.com's analysts staff, but to the content created by InformationWeek, CIO Magazine, The Industry Standard and other top content sources as well." http://www.asktec.com/ AT&T Technology TimeLine - "The Invention of the Telephone...'On March 10, 1876, the telephone was born when Alexander Graham Bell called to his assistant, "Mr. Watson! Come here! I want you!"'" http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/ A Brief History of Programming Languages - "We've come a long way from computers programmed with wires and punch cards. Maybe not as far as some would like, though. Here are the innovations in programming." http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm BUBL Journals - Computing and Information Technology. Search more than a dozen journals devoted to IT. http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=17 Building the European Information Society for Us All - First Reflections of the High Level Group of Experts. Interim Report (January, 1996) Executive Summary. http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3627/5659 Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers - A collection of product announcements and delivery dates from various sources, mainly computer magazines and newspapers. http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/ Colline Report - The Collective Invention of the Word-Wide Web. http://www.dauphine.fr/imri/Valorisation/WP1999/colline/WP13.pdf The Computer Museum History Center - "Established in 1996, The Computer Museum History Center is a non-profit entity dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. It is home to one of the largest collections of computing artifacts in the world, a collection comprising over 3,000 artifacts, 2,000 films and videotapes, 5,000 photographs, 2,000 linear feet of cataloged documentation and gigabytes of software. The collection is housed in a visible storage building in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley." http://www.computerhistory.org/ Computer Museum of America - "One of the world's largest collections of historic computing equipment." http://www.computer-museum.org/ Computers: From Past to Present - by Michelle A Hoyle, University of Regina, Canada. http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/ The Evolution of Culture - An article by Daniel Dennett, which illustrates one of the most popular notions of information. From the e-zine Edge. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dennett/dennett_p1.html Experimental Web Server of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London - "Its purpose is to serve...undergraduate and postgraduate courses and to give...students hands-on experience in electronic publishing." http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/index.html The Great Transatlantic Cable - The design, construction and science of the 2,000 mile cable beneath the Atlantic in 1866. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/cable/ History of Computing - At the IEEE Computer Society. http://www.computer.org/history/index.html The History of Computing - One of the starting points of choice. The site includes a Virtual Computer Museum and the first computer program for playing chess, written by Konrad Zuse in 1942. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html History of Computing and Information Technology - This is a more advanced course which focuses on the historical side of these issues. Please note that the material and the references have not been checked nor updated since the course was last offered in 2003-2004. http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/sts3700b/ History of Recent Science and Technology - "Resources for Research. Use this guide as a place to start your search for informion on the many aspects of your topics regarding the history of recent science and technology, and feel free to ask for help from the librarians in any of the libraries." http://www.dartmouth.edu/~krescook/instruct/hist.6.2.Spr.05.shtml Hobbes' Internet Timeline - An Internet timeline highlighting some of the key events and technologies which helped shape the Internet as we know it today. http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Holding On to Reality - An excerpt from Albert Borgmann's new book The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. Introduction: Information vs. Reality http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/066258.html How It Works...The Computer - Scanned images of a book published in 1971, and revised in 1979. A fascinating look at the world of computing of 35 years ago... http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer/ Humanist Discussion Group - An international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities. Its primary aim is to provide a forum for discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among members. http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/ InfoMine - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections. http://infomine.ucr.edu/Main.html Information Age: People, Information & Technology - "These photographs are from the exhibition, Information Age: People, Information & Technology in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The exhibition displays visually and interactively how electrical information technology has changed our society over the last 150 years." http://photo2.si.edu/infoage/infoage.html Information Society - "The Information Society (TIS) journal, published since 1981, is a key critical forum for leading edge analysis of the impacts, policies, system concepts, and methodologies related to information technologies and changes in society and culture. Some of the key information technologies include computers and telecommunications; the sites of social change include homelife, workplaces, schools, communities and diverse organizations, as well as new social forms in cyberspace." http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/ Institute for Information Technology at the National Research Council of Canada. http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ Intel Museum - "For the past 35 years, Intel has been a leader in technology exploration and innovation worldwide. The Intel Museum showcases Intel’s history and operations through unique exhibits and presentations designed to let you explore Intel® technology first hand. Browse our online collection of interactive exhibits and educational materials developed to enhance your museum experience." http://www.intel.com/museum/ Intellectual Property in Cyberspace - Who owns what information on the Internet? Who should own what information on the Internet? As usage of the Net intensifies, these questions are becoming increasingly important and controversial. Lawyers, legal scholars, judges, lawmakers, and Internet users disagree concerning how the existing set of legal rules should be applied to this new medium - and disagree even more sharply concerning whether and how those rules should be modified to manage the medium better. http://eon.law.harvard.edu/property/ Internet Culture - Martin Ryder's compilation of online resources on Internet Culture. http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/culture.html Martin Campbell-Kelly's List of Computing History Courses - A fairly complete list of universities offering courses on the history of computing with on-line information. http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~mck/HoC_Courses.html Marvin Minsky's Home Page - Minsky has made many contributions to Artificial Intelligence and related areas. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in The Society of Mind (1987), which is also the title of a course he teaches at MIT. http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ MiningCo: Computing/Technology. http://home.miningco.com/compute/index.htm?COB=home&PID= The Neo-Luddite Reaction - "Cultural change necessarily involves resistance to change. The term Luddite has been resurrected from a previous era to describe one who distrusts or fears the inevitable changes brought about by new technology. The original Luddite revolt occurred in 1811, an action against the English Textile factories that displaced craftsmen in favor of machines. Today's Luddites continue to raise moral and ethical arguments against the excesses of modern technology to the extent that it threatens our essential humanity." A large collection of good resources and links. http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/luddite.html Netizens: An Anthology - On the Impact and History of Usenet and the Internet An ambitious look at the social aspects of computer networking. The authors, Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben, examine the present and the turbulent future, and especially the technical and social roots of the Net. http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ Nicholas Negroponte's Home Page - With links to his WIRED Columns. (1993-1998). http://www.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/ Quantum Information Research at NIST: Goals and Vision - "Quantum information systems can transcend the physical limits of today’s computing and communications technologies. Transistors and other electronic components have been shrinking in size for many years. When they get close to the size of single atoms, they will be miniaturized out of a job. Atomic-sized circuits cannot be made to function in conventional ways, in part because of the inability to dissipate heat and in part because they do not behave like their larger counterparts. Thus, at the smallest scales, scientists need to take advantage of a different set of design rules. These are the rules of quantum mechanics, nature’s instruction book for the smallest particles of matter and energy." http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/quantum/quantum_info_index.html The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History - Gregory Gromov's "comprehensive and fascinating overview of the philosophy and history of the Internet. Many related links and a section on pertinent statistics. From Internet Valley, a Sacramento, California Internet consulting and publishing company." http://www.internetvalley.com/intval.html SciTech Daily Review - "It can be hard to find intelligent, informed science and technology coverage, so we treasure those writers and publications who make the effort to help keep us informed. Settle back and read the thought-provoking coverage of scitech issues with SciTech Daily Review," as well as the latest news. http://www.scitechdaily.com/ The Scout Report - The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Our team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ The Smithsonian Institution - A large number of good resources in the area of computers and communication. http://www.si.edu/science_and_technology/computers_and_communications/ Society, Cyberspace, and the Future - How Can New Interactive Communication Technology Enhance Harmonious and Functional Communities at all Scales Worldwide? Report of an Exploratory Aspen Workshop. http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~rich/aspen.html The Spire Project: A Better Way to Find Information - An excellent guide to searching for information. The entire site is freely downloadable in one zipped file. http://spireproject.com/ Steven Lubar's Course on the History and Sociology of Science - Technology and Society/Information and Communications (University of Pennsylvania). http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slubar/m003.html The Systers Home Page - An informal organization for technical women in computing that began in 1987 as a small mailing list for women in "systems", thus the name systers. There are now over 2500 systers in 25 countries. http://www.systers.org/ Techmate - Garry Kasparov, 13-time world chess champion, sinks into a deep blue funk. http://www.forbes.com/asap/99/0222/071.htm TechNation - "Hosted by Dr Moira Gunn, TechNation presents interviews with people from every part of our lives--from Internet entrepernours to scientists, from astronauts to media critics, from sci-fi novelists to politicians. In Gunn's words, 'Everyone is a piece of the puzzle. Everyone is essential.'" http://www.technation.com/ The Turing Digital Archive - "This digital archive contains mainly unpublished personal papers and photographs of Alan Turing from 1923-1972. The originals are in the Turing archive in King's College Cambridge. It contains letters, obituaries and memoirs written by colleagues and used by Sara Turing for her biography of her son (Heffers: Cambridge, 1959); talks and publications on the Automatic Computing Engine, his work at the National Physical Laboratory, the theories of computable numbers, digital computers, morphogenesis and the chemical development of cells." http://www.turingarchive.org/ Tools For Thought - Howard Rheingold's "exercise in retrospective futurism." A full on-line book "written in the early 1980s [and revised in 2000], attempting to look at what the mid 1990s would be like...[and] to piece together how Boole and Babbage and Turing and von Neumann--especially von Neumann--created the foundations that the later toolbuilders stood upon to create the future we live in today. You can't understand where mind-amplifying technology is going unless you understand where it came from." http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/ UNESCO’s Activities in Communication and Information - Access to information, capacity building, content development, freedom of expression, media development, preservation. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1645&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html The Virtual Museum of Computing - This virtual museum includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world. http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/other/museums/computing.html Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting - A complete on-line course by Angela Elkordy. "This series of tutorials addresses a range of search topics. Users who have no prior knowledge of how to locate information on the Web as well as searchers with advanced skills have found the lessons to be helpful." http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/searching/ismain.html The WWW Virtual Library: Computing. http://vlib.org/Computing The WWW Virtual Library: Information and Libraries. http://vlib.org/InformationManagement Yahoo! - Computers and Internet. http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/   | Back | Syllabus | Last Modification Date: 07 July 2008