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LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction  
2 Medieval and Renaissance Cosmology and Clockwork  
3 The Industrial Revolution and Calculating Engines: Analytics of Capital and Gender Difference in the Work of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace  
4 World War Two: Cybernetics, Communication, and Control  
5 The Cold War: Coding and Closing the World Paper 1 due
6 Artificial Intelligence and the Construction of Cognition and Gender  
7 Artificial Life  
8 Postcolonial Recalculations: Legacies of African Mathematical Systems  
9 Computing Counterculture: Hacking and Gaming from PC to Internet Paper 2 due
10 Properties of Identity and Collectivity in Cyberspace: Gender, Race, Nation, Opensource

Guest Lecturer: Anita Chan		  
11 The Materiality of Networking  
12 DNA Computing Paper 3 due