Computer, chapters 1, 3 & 4 (pages 9-28, 53 -104)

ENIAC Press Release - February 16, 1946.

Computer, chapters 2, 5 (pages 29-52 and 105-130)

Thomas Haigh, "The Chromium Plated Tabulator: Institutionalizing an Electronic Revolution, 1954-1958", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing October-December 2001

Edward Callis Berkeley. Giant Brains: Machines That Think (NY: New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1949), pages 180-195.

COMPARISON:  Punched Card Machines and Office Technology

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Computer, chapter 7 (pages 157-181)

Paul Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), Chapter 3, "SAGE"

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From Mainframes to Minicomputers

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(Make a start on Soul of a New Machine)

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Hackers, Chapters 1-4

Sherry Turkle, "Hackers: Loving the Machine for Itself" from The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1984) – Chapter 6.

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Hackers, Chp 8-11 (153-244)

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Accidental Empires: Chapters 4, 7, 9 (pages 48-72 and 119-138 & 159-182)

Levy, Steve. "A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge", in Tom Forester, Computers in the Human Context, MIT Press, 1991. Pages 318-326.

Winner, Langdon. "Mythinformation", from Winner, Langdon. The Whale and the Reactor, University of Chicago Press, 1986.

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Presentation: Ross Freedman
Presentation: Russel Mink

Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. "The End of Innocence, Part I" in The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Machine Age, MIT Press, 1995. Pages 123-155.  (Olin reserve)

COMPARISON: Radio - Susan Douglas, "Popular Culture and Populist Technology," in Inventing American Broadcasting (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), Chapter 6.  (Olin reserve)

Hackers, chapters 17 and 18. (Rest of section III is optional).

Landreth, Bill ("The Cracker") with Howard Rheingold, "Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security", Microsoft Press, 1985. Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 4. (pages 1-24, 57-72) (Olin reserve)

 Markoff., John "A Most-Wanted Cyberthief is Caught in His Own Web" , The New York Times, 16th February 1995. (Front page, main section). Also Markoff, John "Hacker and Grifter Duel on the Net," New York Times, 19th February 1995.

Oder, Norman.  "Cybercrime - or hype?" , Publishers Weekly 242 (Nov 27, 1995 - n48), page 28.

From Hiltz, Starr Roxanne & Turoff, Murray. The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer, The MIT Press, 1993. (1^st ed: Addison-Wesley, 1978). The Boshwash News - a collection of pages between chapters.  (Olin reserve)

De Lacy, Justine. "The Sexy Computer", in Tom Forester, Computers in the Human Context, MIT Press, 1991. Pages 228-236. Originally published in The Atlantic, July 1987.  (Olin reserve)

Mayer, Martin. "The Videotext Revolution", in Tom Forester, The Information Technology Revolution, MIT Press, 1985.  (Olin reserve)

Winston, Brian. "The Illusion of Revolution", in Tom Forester, Computers in the Human Context, MIT Press, 1991. Pages 71-81.  (Olin reserve)

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Accidental Empires, Chapters 5 & 10 (48-72, 182-208)

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Presentation: Carter Pace

Norberg, Arthur L. & Judy E. O'Neill, "Improving Connections among Researchers: The Development of Packet-Switching Computer Networks", from Transforming Computer Technology (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). pages 153-196. (Olin reserve)

COMPARISON: The Telegraph -- Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers (Berkeley, 1998). Chapters 5, 6 & 9 (74-104 & 145-163). (Olin reserve)
 

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Project Report 1

Abbate, Janet. "By No Means Complete or Perfect": The Network as Experienced by Early Users, chapter 3 of Inventing the Internet (Rutgers University Press, 1999). (Olin reserve)

Nilles, Jack. "Teleworking from Home", in Tom Forester, The Information Technology Revolution, MIT Press, 1985. Pages 202-208.  (Olin reserve)

Forester, Tom. The Myth of the Electronic Cottage in Tom Forester, Computers in the Human Context, MIT Press, 1991. Pages 213-227.  (Olin reserve)

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Hafner, Katie. "The Epic Saga of the Well: The World’s Most Influential Online Community (and it’s not AOL)". Wired, Vol 5.05, May 1995, 98-142. Read it on-line.

Turkle, Sherry "Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace," The American Prospect no. 24 (Winter 1996): 50-57. Read it on-line.

Rheingold, Howard. "A Slice of My Life in My Virtual Community", in Ludlow, Peter (ed.) High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996. 413-436. Read it on-line.

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Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs (Regan Books: 1995), chapter 1 (pages 1-42) Read it on-line.

Accidental Empires, chapter 6 (93-118)

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Presentation: Russell McPherson -- Scuba Diving Technology

Madrick, Jeff "Computers: Waiting for the Revolution", The New York Review of Books, March 26^th 1998, pages 29-33. (Olin reserve).

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Hansell, Saul. "Listen Up! It's Time for a Profit; A Front-Row Seat as Amazon Gets Serious", New York Times, May 20 2001. Read it on-line.

Knowledge@Wharton (via cnet.com) "What Makes a Winning Net Grocer?," October 20, 2001 (there are two pages -- read both).

COMPARISON: Catalog Shopping and Home Delivery

Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1995. It's not on-line, so read these columns instead - they're what it's based on. Bits and Atoms , One Room Rural Schools, Beyond Digital