Topics

• Turkle, Sherry "Artificial Life as the New Frontier,"
  Life on the Screen, 1995, 1997,
  pp.149-174: course reader

• Gessler, Nicholas, Computer Models of Cultural Evolution, In EVOLUTION IN THE COMPUTER AGE - Proceedings of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, edited by David B. and Gary B. Fogel. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, Massachusetts (2002)
  http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/
  geog/gessler/cv-pubs/02comocultevo.htm
• If the link doesn't work
  go here: article archive

• Be prepared to discuss the reading in class next week with our guest lecturer, Dr. Nick Gessler!

Due today - Design by Sequence

Final project/Research paper topics: Select a final project/paper option (see assignments) and then from your Ideas Journal, Generating ideas notes, reading, or other research, decide on a final project/research topic for your final paper. Bring typed topic paragraph to class. It should be no longer than well written half page, double spaced.

Due May 22, 2003 - NOTE DATE CHANGE