Class Materials:

Required Reading/Viewing

Licklider, J. C. (2008). Man-computer symbiosis. IRE transactions on human factors in electronics, (1), 4-11.

Engelbart, D. C. (2023). Augmenting human intellect: A conceptual framework. In Augmented education in the global age (pp. 13-29). Routledge.

Triple Revolution Memorandum (Ad Hoc Committee) 

Nakamura, L. (2014). Indigenous circuits: Navajo women and the racialization of early electronic manufacture. American Quarterly, 66(4), 919-941.

Hu, T. H. (2015). A Prehistory of the Cloud. MIT press. (Ch. 1) 

Petrov, V. (2023). Balkan Cyberia: Cold war computing, Bulgarian modernization, and the information age behind the iron curtain. MIT Press. (Ch.3)

Medina, E. (2011). Cybernetic revolutionaries: Technology and politics in Allende's Chile. Mit Press. (Ch. 1)

Peters, B. (2016). How not to network a nation: The uneasy history of the Soviet Internet. Mit Press. (Ch. 4)

Lepore, J. (2020). If then: How the simulmatics corporation invented the future. Liveright Publishing (Ch. 1)

Computer Girls, Cosmopolitan Magazine (1967) 

Dr. Kleinrock + the first message sent on the ARPANET

Further Reading/Viewing

Doğan, M. S. (2026). Early Examples of Glitch Art in the Works of Vera Molnár. In Digital Transformations in Contemporary Art and Media Practices (pp. 203-232). IGI Global Scientific Publishing.

Wolff, M. (2007). Reading potential: The oulipo and the meaning of algorithms. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 1(1).

Stevens, H., & Chan, J. (2022). Computing Nanyang: information technology in a developing Singapore, 1965-85. In Abstractions and Embodiments.

Delia Derbyshire

The Mother of All Demos - Douglas Engelbart (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey

Unimate (1961)

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963

Emulated ELIZA

NATO Software Engineering Conference (1968)

Whole Earth Catalog (1)

E.A.T. materials