Class Schedule
|
Date |
Topic | Reading Assignment |
| 7-Jan | Introduction | |
| 14-Jan | Leibniz and Boole | Chapters 1 and 2, {Leibniz article or Boole article} |
| 21-Jan | no class | |
| 28-Jan | Babbage | Babbage article 1, article 2, article 3 |
| 4-Feb | no class | |
| 11-Feb | Frege and Cantor | Chapters 3 and 4 |
| 18-Feb | Hilbert and Gödel | Chapters 5 and 6 (and Gödel article) |
| 25-Feb | Turing | Chapter 7 (and Turing article) |
| 4-Mar | History of electronic computers | Chapter 8 (and History article) |
| 11-Mar | The future of computing | Chapter 9 (and Turing paper - especially sections 1, 2, 3, 6) |
|
Date |
Special Topic | Presenter |
| 7-Jan | none | |
| 14-Jan | none | |
| 21-Jan | no class | |
| 28-Jan | Ancient numbering systems and notations | Brendan |
| 4-Feb | no class | |
| 11-Feb | ||
| 18-Feb | Russell / Von Neumann | Vicky / Ajay |
| 25-Feb | Vannevar Bush / Hopper | Bo / Jacqueline |
| 4-Mar | Zuse / Claude Shannon | Mike / Lakshmi |
| 11-Mar | The future of Moore's Law / Challenges to Strong AI | Dan / Annalies |
Some possible special topics:
Ancient numbering systems and notations
Ancient Greek foundations of mathematics and logic
Euclid and The Elements
Blaise Pascal (and the "Pascalene")
Herman Hollerith
Konrad Zuse
Claude Shannon
John von Neumann
Ada Lovelace
Bertrand Russell
Vannevar Bush
JCR Licklider
Maurice Wilkes
Grace Murray Hopper
John Atanasoff
Howare Aiken
Doug Engelbart
ENIAC, EDVAC, Whirlwind, Colossus, ACE, Harvard Mark I and II, Manchester Mark I, ...
The future of Moore's Law
Non von Neumann computer architectures
Challenges to strong AI (Searle, Penrose, etc.)