| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Medieval and Renaissance Cosmology and Clockwork | |
| 3 | The Industrial Revolution and Calculating Engines: Analytics of Capital and Gender Difference in the Work of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace | |
| 4 | World War Two: Cybernetics, Communication, and Control | |
| 5 | The Cold War: Coding and Closing the World | Paper 1 due |
| 6 | Artificial Intelligence and the Construction of Cognition and Gender | |
| 7 | Artificial Life | |
| 8 | Postcolonial Recalculations: Legacies of African Mathematical Systems | |
| 9 | Computing Counterculture: Hacking and Gaming from PC to Internet | Paper 2 due |
| 10 | Properties of Identity and Collectivity in Cyberspace: Gender, Race, Nation, Opensource Guest Lecturer: Anita Chan | |
| 11 | The Materiality of Networking | |
| 12 | DNA Computing | Paper 3 due |