Schedule

Topics covered

Class: Every Tuesday and Thursday from 09:30 to 10:45.

Class can consist of 3 parts:

1. Lecture
2. Guest lecture by prominent SOIC (or beyond) faculty member
3. Readings presentation and discussion>/li>

Dates:

• Aug 27, 29
• Sep 3, 5
• Sep 10,12
• Sep 17, 19 (guest lecture)
• Sep 24, 26
• Oct 1, 3
• Oct 8, 10
• Oct 15, 17
• Oct 22, 24
• Oct 29, 31
• Nov 5, 7
• Nov 12, 14
• Nov 19, 21
• Thanksgiving Break
• Dec 3, 5
• Dec 10, 12

We have a lot of time for discussion and participation. Use it. Much of our material invites vigorous debate. Opinions are good, speaking up is good, discussion is good, m'kay.

1. How did we get here?
2. From cybernetics to informatics
3. The logical mechanisms of nature and society
4. The nature of information
5. From semiotics to Shannon
6. Information and Technology
7. The cyborg species?
8. Technology as Problem Solving
9. Next-generation computer science?
10. Various flavors of informatics
11. Computing Models of the World
12. Next-generation science?
13. New computational paradigms
14. The limits of computation
15. Research in a nascent field
16. Computational thinking, what is it?
17. Scientific method and the practice of science
18. Publication practices