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Week 1:
- Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Rodney Brooks (2002) -- pp 12-21, pp 32-51. [NB: On p. 32, "1992" should in fact be "1982"] Week 2:
- Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Rodney Brooks (2002) -- pp 99-126.
- "Computer Recreations: The cellular automaton offers a model of the world and a world unto itself", Brian Hayes, Scientific American, March 1984
- Conway's Game of Life. Week 3: None. Week 4:
- Data Miners, Daniel Franklin, Time, Global Business/Technology Bonus Section, Dec. 15, 2002
- Math Will Rock Your World, BusinessWeek, Cover Story, Jan. 23, 2006 [NB: This article has a persistent typo; "math" should be "algorithms"]
- Hypersearching the Web, Scientific American, June 1999
- The wisdom of Hercules, The Economist, Aug. 25, 2005 Weeks 4 & 5:
- Mathematical Recreations: The Ultimate in Anty-Particles, Ian Stewart, Scientific American, July 1994
- "What is a Computation?", Martin Davis, Mathematics Today, Lynn Arthur Steen ed., Vintage Books (Random House), 1980
- Code-Breaker, Jim Holt, The New Yorker, Feb. 2, 2006 [Optional reading] Week 6:
- Computer Science: A Breadth-First Approach with C, John Impagliazzo and Paul Nagin (1995) -- pp 116-125 [Introduction to computer logic]
- The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, Martin Davis (2000) -- p ? [Boole's version of Clarke's proof of the existence of God]
- An Invitation to Computer Science, G. Michael Schneider and Judith L. Gersting (1999) -- pp 152-165 [Introduction to computer circuit design] Week 7:
- "Computer Recreations: On the finite-state machine, a minimal model of mousetraps, ribosomes, and the human soul", Brian Hayes, Scientific American, December 1983
- Sequential circuits notes, Lisa Worthington, 2003 [Suggested reading] Week 8:
- The Multitasking Generation, Claudia Wallis, Time, Cover Story, March 27, 2006
- Bringing the Net to the Bedroom, W. Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American, April 2002
- China launches new generation Internet, Liu Baijia, China Daily, December 27, 2004 Week 9:
- Cramming more components onto integrated cicuits, Gordon Moore, Electronics, Volume 38, Number 8, April 19, 1965. [Moore's original article]
- The Law of More, W. Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American Presents: The Solid-State Century, 1997
- How A Microprocessor Is Made, Intel Week 10:
- Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically, Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, John Langford, Communications of the ACM, Volume 47, Number 2, February 2004.
- P vs. NP, Clay Mathematics Institute.
- The Captcha Project, Carnegie Mellon University.
- The Zombie Hunters, The New Yorker, Oct. 10, 2005. Week 11:
- Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Rodney Brooks (2002) -- pp 75-97. Week 12:
- Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Rodney Brooks (2002) -- pp 148-154, 172-180, 194-195.
- Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?, John R. Searle, Scientific American, January 1990
- Virtual Law and Order, Discover Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 4, April 2006.
- Second Life, Linden Reaserch, Inc.
