Assignments

Video: Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1)
Tuesday Nov 9

Some Lecture Notes

Microprocessors

Workstations

Personal Calculators

Personal Computers
 

ARPANET

Ethernet

Notes

1. "Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet," (PBS Home Video, 1998). See also Stephen Segaller, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (TV Books, 1998).

Bibliography

Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Basic Books, 1996).

Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).

Martin Dodge, "An Atlas of Cyberspaces: Historical Maps of Computer Networks," http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/historical.html (www.cybergeography.org, accessed 2004 Nov 4).

Kay Ebeling, "Computer Network Links UT to Nation," (The Daily Texan, University of Texas at Austin, 1977 Nov 28). Also available online at http://www.dgatx.com/computing/people/Kay-Ebeling/pubs/1977/11-28-DT/notes/hs.html (www.dgatx.com, 2003 Nov 19)

Chris Edmondson-Yurkanen, "'THINK' Protocols," http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/index.htm (Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Nov 5). Technical histories of the Internet and other network protocols.

Gerhard Fonken, Letter to Donald Good, (1980 Apr 11). Also available online at http://www.dgatx.com/computing/people/Gerhard-Fonken/pubs/1980/04-11-DG/notes/hs.html (www.dgatx.com, 2003 Nov 19)

Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Simon & Schuster, 1998). This is very readable with good information.

J Strother Moore, "Automatic Theorem Proving Research Group," http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/atp/index.html (Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Nov 11)