Schedule for INLS 92


January 8 - Course overview  

Assignment for Tues 1/13/2004

Utopic visions -
Bush and Greenberger

January 13 - Discussion of Bush and Greenberger

Precursors of Bush

Emanuel Goldberg and his Statistical Machine - demonstrated in Dresden, London and Paris in 1931
H. G. Wells' World Brain/World Encyclopedia first presented in London 1936 in another version than the linked version here.

Precursors of Orwell

Thomas More. "Utopia" (1516)
Edward Bellamy. "Looking Backward" (1857)
H. G. Wells. "Time Machine" (1898)
Jack London. "Iron Heel" (1907)
Eugene Zamiatin. "We" (1921. 1924-English edition).
Aldous Huxley. "Brave New World" (1931)

Assignment for Thursday 1/15

Read Rheingold introduction "How the Recognize the Future When It Lands On You" and the Updates at smartmobs.com on HtRtFWILOY

January 15 - How to Recognize the Future When It Lands on You

Assignment for Tuesday 1/20 "Shibuya Epiphany"

January 20 - Shibuya Epiphany

Assignment for Tuesday 1/22 SE on smartmobs.com

January 22 - Update of Shibuya Epiphany

Assignment for Tuesday 1/27 Technologies of Cooperation

January 27 - Technologies of Cooperation

January 29 - Visit with Bob Young - Red Hat founder and head of Lulu.com

Assignment for Tuesday 2/3 read about EFF.org and for Cory Doctorow visit

February 3 - pre-Cory Doctorow discussion

February 5 - visit by Cory Doctorow

Assignment for Tuesday 2/10 ToC on smartmobs.com

February 10 - Update of Technologies of Cooperation

Assignment for Thursday 2/12 Computation Nations and Swarm  Supercomputers

Step 1 of Major Paper due

February 12 - Computation Nations and Swarm  Supercomputers

Kelly Hoffman and LaQuintes Jones

Assignment for Tuesday 2/17 CN and SS on smartmobs.com

February 17 - Update of Computation Nations and Swarm  Supercomputers

Harrison Hall and Adam King

Assignment for Thursday 2/19 The Era of Sentient Things

February 19 - The Era of Sentient Things

Aletha Green and Chris Liang

VR at UNC

Elumens

Steve Mann

Cooltown

Warren Robinett

Websigns

Smart Dust in US News and World Report 2/16/04

Roadblocks to RFIDs in Cnet 2/19/04

Assignment for Tuesday 2/24 tEoST on smartmobs.com

February 24 - Update of The Era of Sentient Things

Len Fiume and Tadra Martin

Steve Bellovin

Marcel Waldvogel

FDA on RFID for Drugs

Assignment for Thursday 2/26 The Evolution of Reputation

February 26 - The Evolution of Reputation

Olapeju Fadiora and T. Meekins

Pattie Maes

Alexa

Brewster Kahle (update!)

ePinions

Slashdot

Paul Resnick

GroupLens

Chris Dellarocas

Marc Smith at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Assignment for Tuesday 3/2 EoR on smartmobs.com

Step 2 of Major Paper due

March 2 - Update of The Evolution of Reputation

Zach Evans and Jennifer O'Bryan

Assignment for Thursday 3/4 Wireless Quilts

March 4 - Wireless Quilts

Christina Ekeleme and Sam Sims

Wi-Fi Networking News

Triangle's Partly Cloudy Net

McCafes come to the Triangle

NandO on Triangle Wi-Fi spots

SF Public Wireless (and Brewster Kahle) in Time

Boingo

Hedy Lamarr as inventor

Hedy Lamarr as actress

Steve Cisler the unconnected

Dave Hughes Colorado Wireless Project

Wireless on Mount Everest

Official Bluetooth Site

David Reed

David Reed's Open Spectrum Site

Yochai Benkler

Larry Lessig

Assignment for Tuesday 3/16 WQ on smartmobs.com

March 16 - Update on Wireless Quilts

Taylor Debnam and Alicia Terrian

Assignment for Thursday 3/18 Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many

March 18 - Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many

Erik Dalton and Curtis Webster

UPOC (universal point of contact)

Mobile Cupid and more

Digifest 2004 featuring Steve Mann

Wearable Computing Group - U of Oregon

WCG - Carnegie-Mellon

WCG - MIT

Gerd Kortuem

Mark Granovetter

Granovetter and Social Network Analysis

Smart Mobs with a purpose (Madrid)

Smart Mobs Bibliography

Assignment for Tuesday 3/23 SM on smartmobs.com

March 23 - Update on Smart Mobs

Trisha Crutchfield and D'Wayne Wilkins

Assignment for Thursday 3/25 Always-On Panopticon ... or Cooperation Amplifier

March 25 - Visit with State Senator Eric Reeves Co-chair of the Information Technology Committee, Co-chair of Select Committee on Laptops in Senate Chamber

March 30 - Always-On Panopticon ... or Cooperation Amplifier

Nathan Cox and Stewart Williams

Bentham and his Panopticon

Bentham - beyond the Grave

Foucault

Foucault's "Technologies of the Self" defined

EPCOT (aka Waltopia) - Rosette City or Panopticon

Langdon Winner

Robert Wright and NonZerod

Leslie Haddon

Pasi Mäenpää

Gary Marx

Jacques Ellul

Lewis Mumford (in Wikipedia)

Jean Baudrillard

New Lessig Book - Free Culture (download or buy)

Assignment for Thursday 4/1
 smartmobs.com on Always-On Panopticon ... or Cooperation Amplifier

April 1 - Update of Always-On Panopticon ... or Cooperation Amplifier

Jennifer Bullock and Jenny Wong

Assignment for Tuesday 4/6 Begin The Future of Ideas (Preface through Part I )

Step 3 of Major Paper due

April 6 - Discussion of the beginnings of Future of Ideas (Part I - DOT.COMMONS)

Alex Bethune

Assignment for Thursday 4/13 Read Part II of Future of Ideas

April  8 - Jeanne Smythe of ATN Security and Policy

April 13 - Discussion of Part II DOT.CONTRAST

Assignment for Thursday 4/15 Complete Future of Ideas (Part III - DOT.CONTROL)

April 15 - Discussion of Future of Ideas - Especially Part III

Assignment for Tuesday 4/10

April 20 - (Jones at imaging and archives conference)

April 22 - Major paper due at noon.

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