CSE 301 LECTURE MATERIALS

(Links to the lecture slides are in boldface)

Why Study History?

"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


Origins of Computing

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

Batcher calculator collection database (screencast)


Computing in the 1800's

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-5SxiI

Piano 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

IBM and World War II

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


Commercial Computing

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


Mainframe & Mini-Computers

Video: "The Transistor", from AT&T (1953)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0


Large Scale Computer Projects

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


Programming Languages

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


The Integrated Circuit

Video: "How Microchips Are Made"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Qav3vIv9s

The Personal Computer

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

Video Games

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