SI 526

Technologies for Information Management

History of the Computer

yetta nother HISTORY OF COMPUTING site

full text of Scientific American's Special Report on the Internet

Winter 1997 Course Information

• Office hours
• Phone: 763-1156 (EECS 1213) 936-1564 (176 ATL)
• email: bartlett@eecs.umich.edu

Class

• Lectures Wed. 5pm - 7pm, in 411 West Hall.
• Lab (optional) Wed. 7pm - 8pm, in the DIAD

Textbooks (Available from Shaman Drum Book Shop on State Street)

• Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash, Bantam Books, 1993 (On reserve)
• Norman, Donald - Design of Everyday Things, New York, Basic Books, 1988
• Norman, Donald - Things that Make us Smart, New York, Addison-Wesley, 1993 (Note: The Norman books can be purchased as a Macintosh CD ROM from Voyager available at Borders)
• Postman, Neil - Technopoly, Vintage Books
• Negroponte, Nicholas - Being Digital, New York, Knopf, 1995
• A generic computer textbook of your choice. These can be found in libraries and often remaindered in bookstores.

Course Related Links

• Students
• Syllabus
• Assignments

Some UofM Computing Resources

• ITD help page
• ITD Non-Credit Computing Courses on Campus
• ITD publications
• SI computing