This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

 

Lecture Notes

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

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

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