turing machines review
(postscript)
(pdf)
on computable numbers
(postscript)
(pdf)
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Babbage (1864) Of the Analytical Engine (in green book)
Hopcroft & Ullman (ch 7) or
Lewis & Papadimitriou (ch 4)
Turing (1936) On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem
(in green book)
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history of programming I
(postscript)
(pdf)
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von Neumann, J. (1945) First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
(in green book)
Backus, J. (1978) Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (in green book)
McCarthy, J. (1979) History Of Lisp
(html)
(postscript)
(pdf)
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history of programming II
(postscript)
(pdf)
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McCarthy, J. (1979) History Of Lisp (links above)
Codd (1970) A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
(in green book)
Parnas (1972) On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules (in green book)
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history of programming III
(postscript)
(pdf)
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Codd (1970) A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
(in green book) (finish up from last time)
Hertz, J., Krogh, A. and Palmer, R. (1991)
Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation.
(handout)
Braitenberg, V. (1984)
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology.
(handout)
Turing, A. (1950)
Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
(in green book)
Azimov, A. (1950) I, Robot.
(handout)
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Early computers
(postscript)
(pdf)
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CSIRAC Most important: The CSIRAC webpages, also
see the Pearcey
Foundation, for some biographical information about
Pearcey.
No need to read all the following in detail, but they are worth
perusing for background:
Browse the Computer Museum's timeline
of computer history for events in the time-frame we're
looking at (though it has a U.S. bias).
A general resource is the Virtual Museum of Computing.
Manchester Baby and Mark 1
50th anniversary of
Manchester Baby (first true stored-program computer) and
subsequent Mark 1.
ACE Some information can be found at the
ACE
2000 Conference, in various places in Andrew Hodge's
biography Alan Turing: The Enigma, and at Hodge's Turing
website.
ENIAC and EDVAC
University of Pennsylvania Library, special exhibition: John
W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer ; interview
with J. Presper Eckert (National Museum of American
History); biographical
piece on John von Neumann (U.S. News), and another; also Draft
Report on the EDVAC in green book.
EDSAC EDSAC's
50th Anniversary Celebrations at the University of
Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, particularly the vital
statistics . There's an EDSAC
simulator, with useful links.
Also read Campbell-Kelly's intro to Wilkes's book in the green book.
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Software engineering
(postscript)
(pdf)
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Brooks (1975)
The mythical man-month
(in green book).
Also a good point to remind that I expect that you've read:
Parnas (1972)
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into
modules (in green book).
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Operating systems
(postscript)
(pdf)
Now complete
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Campbell-Kelly's intro to Wilkes's book (in green book).
Dijkstra (1968): Cooperating sequential processes (in green book).
Licklider (1960): Man-computer symbiosis (in green book).
Some background information:
The Multician's MULTICS Home Page
Bell Labs' History of
Unix
The C/Unix Hoax
(Just for fun.)
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Operating systems concluded (for lecture slides see above),
Risks (for lecture slides see below).
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See above.
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Risks, Security, Reliability, Cryptography.
Final versions of the lecture slides are
here in browsable html,
printable PostScript and PDF.
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If I have time, I'll add some background links here. More for
your interest, nothing that'll be essential for the exam.
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Copyright, Patents, etc.
Internet, Exam Guide.
Lecture slides are
here in browsable html,
printable PostScript and PDF.
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Cerf and Cain, The DoD Internet Architecture Model (green
book).
For background and interest:
The Free Software
Foundation
GNU General
Public Licence
A Brief
History of the Internet by several of the pioneers
themselves
Vinton Cerf on How the
Internet Came to Be
A
Brief History of the Internet in Australia
Hobbes'
Internet Timeline v5.1
Some other links relating to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Privacy Laws and Intellectual Property Rights.
Please read before the exam. These may also be useful for assignment 2.
US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Anti-DMCA web site
Electronic Frontier Foundation DMCA archive
Intellectual Property Rights (patents, Copyright, Trademarks etc.)
IP Australia Web SIte - Copyright, Patents etc.
Privacy Laws
Privacy Commision Web site - contains links to State privacy web sites and other goodies.
ABC Four Corners documentary about cyber-crime, identity fraud, privacy infringements etc. - ontains a transcript of the programme and other material. The actual TV documentary will be shown in lecture on Sept 8.
Peter Harding's Guest Lecture
Peter Harding's Powerpoint slides.
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