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

Guest Lecturer: Anita Chan
11The Materiality of Networking
12DNA ComputingPaper 3 due

 








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