Intro Interactive – ICM501a

This lecture provides a bit of background and foundation leading up to the period in which interactive computing begins.

If you download each of these MP3s you should be able to listen to them from your computer or any MP3 player. I had mentioned that I was going to run them through iTunes, but given that they claim it may take two weeks to approve a podcast (and that I’d have to separate these out to make sure they were feeding as a podcast), I haven’t done that for now. You should still be able to load these onto your iPod, though.

Entire lecture: mp3

Entire lecture, sped up by 25%: mp3

Contents:

1. Yawn mp3
2. Nonhuman mp3
3. Getting Interactive mp3
4. Media Determinism mp3
5. Print Revolution mp3
6. Information Society mp3
7. Networks mp3
8. Documents mp3
9. Computing mp3
10. Chocolate mp3

Referenced in the lecture / more information:Referenced in the lecture / more information:

• Robert Krulwich, “The Quest to Design the Perfect Yawn,” Krulwich on Science, NPR.org
• QUBE article at Wikipeida
• IMDB page for the movie Clue
• Wikipedia article on Choose-your-own-adventure books
• DOE “factsheet” on Yucca labeling: “The monumental task of warning future generations”
• Renaissance Computer?, compares the printing press to the digital computer
• Wikipedia on Claude Chappe (with a picture of the station with articulated arms)
• IMDB page for the movie Blade Runner
• The Stanford Encycloped of Philosphy on Turing Machines
• The Loebner Prize is for the program that does best on the Turing Test, and the most recent winner is Elbot
• The 501 theme is “Los Alamos Traffic,” by flopsy.