February 7: Introduction and overview, early history
Michael Mahoney, "The History of Computing and the History of Technology." (PDF)

Campbell-Kelley and Aspray, Introduction, Chapter 1, "When Computers were People"

February 14: 19^th Century: Babbage, Hollerith, and Early Business Applications
Charles Babbage, "On the Division of Mental Labor." (PDF)

Campbell-Kelley and Aspray, Chapter 2, "The Mechanical Office"

Mindell, "Anti-Aircraft Fire Control and the Development of Integrated Systems at Sperry, 1925-1940." (PDF)

A. Ben Cllymer, "The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell," (PDF).

February 28: The Bush Differential Analyzer
Larry Owens, "Vannevar Bush and the Differential Analyzer: The Text and Context of an Early Computer." (Xerox)

Visit to MIT Museum, inspection of Differential Analyzer parts and images

March 6: World War II and The Shift to Digital, Toward the Stored Program: ENIAC and EDVAC
Campbell-Kelley and Aspray, Chapter 4, "Inventing the Computer"

Larry Owens, "Where are We Going, Phil Morse?: Changing Agendas and the Rhetoric of Obviousness in the Transformation of Computing at MIT, 1939-1957." (PDF)

John von Neumann, "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" [1945]. (PDF)

Paul Ceruzzi, "Crossing the Divide: Architectural Issues and the Emergence of the Stored Program Computer," (PDF)

ENIAC technical report: http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/46eniac-report/

March 13: Cybernetics and Information Theory
QUIZ #2

William Aspray, "The Scientific Conceptualization of Information: A Survey." (Xerox)

Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics; The Human Use of Human Beings [Selection] (Xerox)

Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly, July 1945 (PDF)

March 20: [No class, spring break]

March 27: The Cold War: Project Whirlwind, Real Time, Graphics
Campbell-Kelley and Aspray, Chapter 7, "Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind"

Robert Everett, Charles Zraket, and Herbert Bennington, "SAGE -- A Data Processing System for Air Defense." (Xerox)

Video: Dr. Strangelove (selections), Fail Safe (selections)

April 3: Numerical Control, Automation and Social Implications
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano.

Video: Desk Set (selections)

April 10: The Computer Industry and DARPA
QUIZ #3

Campbell-Kelley and Aspray, Chapter 5, "The Computer Becomes a Business Machine,"

and Chapter 6, "The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM,"

Ceruzzi, Chapter 1, "The Advent of Commercial Computing, 1945-1956"

                Chapter 2, "Computing Comes of Age, 1956-1964"

                Chapter 5, "The Go-Go Years and the System/360, 1961-1975"

J.C.R. Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis" (PDF)

Multics History Page: http://www.best.com/~thvv/history.html

April 17: Microprocessors & The PC Revolution
Ceruzzi Chapter 6, "The Chip and its Impact, 1965-1975"

                Chapter 7, "The Personal Computer, 1972-1977"

                Chapter 8, "Augmenting Human Intellect, 1975-1985"

Campbell-Kelley and Aspray, Chapter 10, "The Shaping of the Personal Computer"

Video: Revenge of the Nerds (selections)

April 24: AI and Software
Campbell-Kelley and Aspray, Chapter 8, "Software," and Chapter 11, "The Shift to Software"

Ceruzzi Chapter 3, "The Early History of Software, 1952-1968"

May 1 Origins of the Internet
QUIZ #4

Campbell-Kelley and Aspray, Chapter 12, "From the World Brain to the World Wide Web."

Ceruzzi Chapter 9, "Workstations, UNIX, and the Net, 1981-1995"

                Conclusion, "The Digitization of the World Picture"

May 8 : Final Project Presentations, final projects due