INT 94BI - Freshman Seminar
A History of Computing
Fall Quarter 2002
Instructor:
Matthew
Turk (contact info)
Office hours: Mon/Thurs 10-11am or
by appointment, or just come by and see if I'm available.
Meeting Times and Locations: Monday 5:00-6:15pm, Phelps 1401
Course web site: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~mturk/AHOC
Announcements
Notice: We will meet on November 25th, so the last class meeting of the quarter will be on December 2nd.
The extra reading for next week ("Making the first universal computers") is now online.
See the schedule page for your "extra historical figure" assignments: James and Hamid are scheduled for Dec 2nd.
No class on Monday, October 14th
We'll stay in Phelps 1401.
Make sure to check the schedule - read Chapters 1 and 2 for Monday, Oct. 7th
The first class meeting is on September 30th at 5pm in Phelps 1401
Get a head start and buy the book now! Also, peruse through some of the web site on the Links page.
Except for the first meeting, the class meetings will be 1 1/4 hours, from 5:00pm to 6:15pm (see the schedule)
See the syllabus for info on the course and the book we will be reading
Here is the book's introduction, and here are sample pages from Amazon.com
Here are a couple reviews of "The Universal Computer" - #1, #2.
