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INFO 300
Intellectual Foundations of Informatics

Course Syllabus
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Readings by Topic

  1. Informatics - Definition and Scope
  2. The History of the  Internet
  3. Representation
  4. Manipulation
  1. Classification
  2. Interfaces and Interactive Design
  3. Containers: Documents, Augmented Reality, and Ubiquitous Computing
  1. Human Values: Privacy, Security, and Property
  2. Globalization, Community, and Cultural Diversity Online
  3. Biology, Information and Computation

Readings

Decker, R., & Hirshfield, S.  (1994).  The analytic engine (pp. 277-280).  (2nd edition).  Boston: PWS Publishing Company.

Turing, A. M.  (1981).  Computing machinery and intelligence. In D. R. Hofstader & D. C. Dennett, (Eds.), The mind's I (pp. 53-68).  New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc. (Excerpted from Computing machinery and intelligence, Mind, 1950, 59)

Searle, J.  (1981).  Minds, brains and programs.  In D. R. Hofstader & D. C. Dennett, (Eds.), The mind's I (pp. 353-373).  New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc.  (Reprinted from The Behavioral and Brain Sciences [Vol. 3]. Cambridge University Press, 1980)