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SES #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Setting the Stage - Incomes, Occupations and Wages
2-3Two Early Views of Computers' Impacts
4-5Does Technology Complement "Skill"?
6-7Cognition I - Perceiving What Task is to be Done
8IT and Tasks I: Rules Based Applications Including Expert Systems
9-10IT and Tasks II: Pattern Recognition and Computer Learning
11Computer Vision

Guest Lecture - Prof. Todd Zickler, Harvard University
Two-person paper proposal due
12Computer Speech Recognition

Guest Lecture - Dr. T. J. Hazen, CSAIL, MIT
13Implementing Computers and the Reorganization of Work
14Radiology Imaging

Guest Lecture - Dr. Polina Golland, CSAIL, MIT (Subject to Change)
15Implementing Computers and the Reorganization of Work (cont.)
16Midterm Exam
17-19Cognition II - What People Get Paid For: Expert Thinking and Complex Communication
20-21IT and Markets
22IT and Outsourcing
23How Can Computers Substitute for/Complement Classroom Teachers?

Guest Lecture - Dr. Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
24-25IT and Productivity
26Wrap-up

 








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