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Supplementary Course Readings



  1. _Ideas and References Regarding Computer-Mediated Communication and Leadership

  2. _I, Robot: One Man's Quest to Become a Computer (Newsweek feature article: Ray Kurzweil can't wait to be a Cyborg—a human mind inside an everlasting machine. But is this the next great leap in human evolution, or just one man's midlife crisis writ large?)

  3. _Price Engine Comparison: Which is the best online shopping bot?

  4. _Oppenheimer (1997, July). The Computer Delusion. The Atlantic Monthly

  5. _Griffith, E. (2000, September) How the Net Works, Access Magazine

  6. _The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice (A report issued by the Web-Based Education Commission, a committee established by Congress to develop specific policy recommendations geared toward maximizing the educational promise of the Internet for pre-K, elementary, middle, secondary, and postsecondary education learners.)

  7.   Fifty Years From Now: A Vision of a "Home Computer" in 2004

  8. Google Video "Pirates of Silicon Valley"  View this 1999 Warner Brothers/TNT movie capturing the behind the scenes battle between Steve Jobs of Apple (Noah Wyle) and Bill Gates of Microsoft (Anthony Michael Hall). How to view the movie: After browsing to Google VIdeo, search for "Pirates of Silicon Valley." You can watch the video online in your web browser, or download Google's free video application (and the movie) to your computer.

  9. *  New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines (A New York TImes article on new ways of keeping robots from misappropriating Internet resources.)

  10. *  Four Ways to Strengthen a Password (Just what the title suggests!)


 

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