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| Date | Presenter | Topic | Readings |
| Jan. 15 | Moniot | Week 1: what is a computer? | Turing; Searle |
| Jan. 18 | No class | (away at conference) | |
| Jan. 22 | Moniot | Week 1 cont'd | |
| Jan. 24 | Moniot | Week 1 cont'd | |
| Jan. 25 | Moniot | Week 2: popular images of computers | Weizenbaum |
| Jan. 29 | Moniot | Week 2 cont'd | |
| Feb. 1 | Moniot | Week 3: visions of the future | Weiser; Gelernter; Gemperle et al; Healey et al |
| Feb. 5 | Moniot | Week 3 cont'd | |
| Feb. 8 | Moniot | Week 4: nanotechnology | Joy; Feinman; Drexler |
| Feb. 12 | Moniot | Week 4 cont'd | |
| Feb. 15 | Moniot | Week 4 cont'd | |
| Feb. 19 | No class | (Monday schedule) | |
| Feb. 22 | Moniot | Week 5: cyborgs | Kurzweil; Franchi & Guezeldere |
| Feb. 26 | Moniot | Week 5 cont'd | |
| Feb. 29 | Moniot | Week 6: symbolic AI | Dreyfus & Dreyfus; Newell & Simon |
| Mar. 4 | Moniot | Week 6 cont'd | |
| Mar. 7 | Moniot | Week 7: computational AI | Brooks |
| Mar. 11 | Moniot | Week 7 cont'd | |
| Mar. 25 | Chiera | Virtual reality in video games | |
| Mar. 28 | Wallach | AI in movies | |
| Wassner | Cyborgs | ||
| Apr. 1 | Klansek | Smart houses | |
| Galea | Web-based instruction | ||
| Apr. 4 | Demopoulos | Military use of IT | |
| Robinson | Smart cell phones & PDAs | ||
| Apr. 8 | Kalata | AI for global security | |
| Trolinger | Nanotechnology | ||
| Apr. 11 | Verga | Car computers | |
| Giacona | Trans-humanism | ||
| Apr. 15 | Cunha | Robot-human interaction | |
| Zacks | E-Democracy | ||
| Apr. 18 | Lee | Open-source software | |
| Apr. 22 | Williamson | Gov't censorship of the Web | |
| Lorca | CCTV Surveillance | ||
| Apr. 25 | Callahan | Neo-Luddites | |
| P. Twum | Digital Rights Management | ||
| Apr. 29 | Portela | High tech development contests | |
| D. Twum | Global Positioning System | ||
| May 9 | -- | Final Exam |