Computing History



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Computing History

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

Select Video and Audio
Hardware

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

History of the Internet

Computer History Museum. 2010. 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.

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.

In Virtual World
Second Life, or other virtual world or space, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for classes?

Social Bookmarking
Teach and Learn using free Social Bookmarking software to identify what courses, etc. you find edifying.

Delicious - http://delicious.com/

Digg - http://digg.com/

TV-Live Broadcasting
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

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

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

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