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Welcome to the
Computing: Future and Now
(CSEG 510 section 8)
Syllabus and Home Page

Why?

The computing field is undergoing rapid change. Awareness of what the future may hold, and an ability to extrapolate from the past and present into the future, is interesting as well as valuable to anyone planning to live and work in the information age (i.e., all of us).

Textbooks:

A few resources:

Reference:

Coordinator:

Daniel Berleant, Ph.D.

Goals:

Intended to be a valuable and interesting educational experience for you at the 3-credit level (assuming you sign up for 3 credits). Therefore, I will provide you with 3 hours/week of quality in-class time and request that you provide yourself with approximately 6 hours/week of work outside of class on studying and homework. (If you sign up for less than 3 credits, your work load will be correspondingly less.) More specifically -
  1. Read, answer basic questions about, and discuss current visions of the future of computers, computer applications, and the information age.
  2. Write and present a 10 page annotated bibliography on the web addressing some topic in the future of computing. (An annotated bibliography is a list of sources with comments about each.)

Prerequisites by Topic:

Topics and schedule:

Some class sessions will be devoted to discussing visions of the future that have been published. Other class sessions will be devoted to presenting and discussing your annotated bibliographies that you will be developing and which will be published on the web site for this course.

NOTE: This course will be heavily oriented toward class discussions rather than one-way lecture presentations by the instructor.

Class session details:

Assignment of final grade in the course: 
90%   - 100%   -- "A"
89.5% - 89.99% -- "A" or "B," depending on class attendance or excuses & instructor's judgement
80%   - 89.49% -- "B"
79.5% - 79.99% -- "B" or "C," depending on class attendance or excuses & instructor's judgement
70%   - 79.49% -- "C"
69.5% - 69.99% -- "C" or "D," depending on class attendance or excuses & instructor's judgement
60%   - 69.49% -- "D"
59.5% - 59.99% -- "D" or "F," depending on class attendance or excuses & instructor's judgement
50%   - 59.49% -- "F," or "U" if you request it and SAFARI will let me