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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

Notes for many of the lecture sessions are available in the table below.

LEc #TOPICS
1Introduction
2Medieval and Renaissance Cosmology and Clockwork (PDF)
3The Industrial Revolution and Calculating Engines: Analytics of Capital and Gender Difference in the Work of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace (PDF)
4World War Two: Cybernetics, Communication, and Control (PDF)
5The Cold War: Coding and Closing the World (PDF)
6Artificial Intelligence and the Construction of Cognition and Gender (PDF)
7Artificial Life
8Postcolonial Recalculations: Legacies of African Mathematical Systems
9Computing Counterculture: Hacking and Gaming from PC to Internet (PDF)
10Properties of Identity and Collectivity in Cyberspace: Gender, Race, Nation, Opensource

Guest Lecturer: Anita Chan
11The Materiality of Networking
12DNA Computing (PDF)

 








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