Computing History



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Computing History

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Select Libraries
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select References
Film

Crowder, Paul. 2009. The Real Revolutionaries. (A film about 'Silicon Valley' and of two intelligent but very different men. William Shockley and Robert Noyce).

2001: A Space Odyssey

Pirates of Silicon Valley

Tron

Hackers

The Matrix

War games

Firewall

Swordfish

Electric Dreams

The Net

Select Video and Audio
Hardware

Scoble, Robert. 2006. Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the Mouse. Google Video.

History of the Internet

Computer History Museum. 2010. History The Computer History Museum ComputerHistory's Channel. Mountain View, CA: Computer History Museum.

Dear, Brian. 2010. Plato (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations) History: Remembering the Future. La Jolla, CA: Plato History Foundation.

Engelbart, Douglas. 1968. Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" 1968. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Research Institute.

Timelines
Timeline of Computer History. 2010. Timeline of Computer History. Moutain View, CA: Computer History Museum.

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
Join the World University and School Google Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School.

Digital To Do
Broadcast to radio frequency

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Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

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Translate

Videophone

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
Second Life, or other virtual world or space, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for classes? Check out Harvard's virtual island in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 and teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

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Social Bookmarking
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Digg - http://digg.com/

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TV-Live Broadcasting
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Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
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Google Video Conferencing - in Gmail

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

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