(Links to the lecture slides are in boldface)
"Why Study History?", By Peter N. Stearns, American Historical Association
History of the Multimedia Lab (1995 -2015)
Article: "So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class ...", By Andrew Ross Sorkin, NY Times, 9/5/2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/magazine/so-bill-gates-has-this-idea-for-a-history-class.html
Related - Big History Project
Major Themes in the History of Computing
The Power of Information - The Information Age:
Alvin Toeffler - The Third Wave
https://www.agilityirl.com/vuca-agile-leadership-part-2/
Fashion & Virtue (Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art exploring the impact of the Guttenberg Press on woman-owned businesses and capital in the Renaissance)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Fashion_and_Virtue_Textile_Patterns_and_the_Print_Revolution_1520_1620
"As We May Think" - Vannevar Bush and the Memex, a vision of computing from 1945
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1945/07/176-1/132407932.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c539cK58ees&t=153s
Special Topic: The Computing of History
The Vesuvius Challenge
https://scrollprize.org/firstletters
https://scrollprize.org/grandprize
The Mummy Speaks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/science/mummy-voice.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94KBXL4D3p4
Video: "The playful wonderland behind great inventions", Steven Johnson, TED Talk 2016
https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_the_playful_wonderland_behind_great_inventions
Video: "Where Great Ideas Come From", Steven Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8iIQ8TvRvA
Videos: The Antikythera Mechanism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpLcnAIpVRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrfMFhrgOFc
Video: "The Creation of the Computer", The History Channel
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1vz6w0
Batcher calculator collection database (screencast)
Video: "Charles Babbage and His Difference Engine", Computer History Museum's YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBuJqUfO4-w&feature=channel_page
Video: "Ada Lovelace - Enchantress of Numbers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZozgCLHc4
Related -
"The Silver Swan", Automata By John Joseph Merlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOGBP-5SxiIPiano Trio - "Träumerei", By Robert Schumann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM7NOkKbPl8"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", By Lord Byron (fourth Canto)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5131/5131-h/5131-h.htm#link2H_4_0006
Video: "A Call from Herman Hollerith", with Bob Newhart, IBM, 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eJb3Ee8Xmc
Electromechanical & Analog Computing
Video: "The Harvard Mark I", Harry R. Lewis, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science, Harvard University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ObouwCHk8w
Video: Grace Hopper on "Late Night with David Letterman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
Video: "Remembering Grace Hopper", Department of Defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swve3nse_5I
Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] D11 tabulator
World War II & Modern Computing
Video: The ENIAC, from the University of Pennsylvania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4oGI_dNaPc
Video: "1946 ENIAC, First U.S. Electronic Computer", Computer History Archives Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGk9W65vXNA&t=0s
Video: ENIAC Newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORFbD_3QGmw
Video: Colossus, from ComputingHeritage (Google)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXWMjIA59c
Video: Alan Turing, from Cambridge University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtRLmL70TH0
Video: Hedy Lamar and frequency hopping (spread spectrum wireless)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rlXHNeQD-s
Video: Claude Shannon, from AT&T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7bVw7lMtUg
Video: "Remington-Rand Present the UNIVAC", Computer History Museum's YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fURxbdIZs&feature=channel_page
Video: 1952 Presidential Election News Coverage (featuring UNIVAC), CBS News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vjD0d8D9Ec
Video: "The Transistor", from AT&T (1953)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0
Video: "In Your Defense: The SAGE System", Computer History Museum's YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06drBN8nlWg&feature=channel_page
Video: The Whirlwind Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmRtNmnRdNI
Video: "Ivan Sutherland and the Sword of Damocles"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFqXGxKsM3w
Video: "Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RyU50qbvzQ
Video: IBM's "Man and Computer", 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUCZJWo9MZo&feature=channel_page
Video: Replication of a Turing Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3keLeMwfHY
Video: "How Microchips Are Made"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Qav3vIv9s
Video: "Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU
"Triumph of the Nerds", PBS
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrC722gKCIc
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySqEvijSDGE
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpdhFAKPsT4
Advertisement: "Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer", directed by Ridley Scott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
Advertisement: Steve Ballmer Introduces Windows 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuDS0ntaJY
Video: "The Macintosh Software Dating Game"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InPIGu-bdwM
Video: "Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford in 2005"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOlRWg_iyWY
The Internet & The World Wide Web
Video: A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4
"Nerds 2.0", PBS
Part 1 "Networking the Nerds" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luwXqAJBneI
Part 2 - "Connecting the Suits" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxqOinNgyZY
Part 3 - "Wiring the World" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxKSmf0QeSg
Video: "The Mother of All Demos" (Douglas Englebart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Video: Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXwjwZrp5WQ
Advertisement: America Online 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdxiH7zJCfI
Video: "A Brief History of the World Wide Web", CERN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSqZ_hJu9zA
Interview: Sir Tim Berners-Lee with the Washington Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbV82k-ExT0
Video: "The Invention and History of Google", Discovery UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Nyi4Xb9PY
Video: "A Brief History of Facebook", TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqcogBeAsuw
Video: "Amazon History: Beyond the Ticker", Yahoo Finance
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/amazon-history-beyond-ticker-174420458.html
Documentary: "Revolution OS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjMZssWMweA
Open Source Definition:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
Essay: "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", by Eric Raymond
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html
DVD: "The Video Game Revolution", PBS
PBS Video Game Revolution web site:
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/index.html
Video Game Timeline:
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/history/timeline_flash.html
DVD: "Dot Con", PBS Frontline
PBS Dot Con web site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/
Primer about IPO's:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/thinking/primer.html