Books Presentations in the Course

Remarks:

1. You (and your team) should have selected a book of greatest interest to YOU.

2. Read the book (possibly assigning sections to individual members of your group).

3. Discuss the content, importance, weaknesses of the books.

4. Produce a 3 –5 page summary of the book and post it a week before your presentation on the class website — emphasizing

   1. the relevance of the book to the class as a whole and

   2. the specific relationships to individual themes in the course

5. Your team will have one class session to present the book and your findings and assessment about it to the class according to the schedule below!

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Presentation Date: Monday, April 3, 2000

Simon, H. A. (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial, (Third ed.), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

1. Michael Webster

2. Taro Adachi

3. Bradley Crysel

4. Lu Fan

5. Arianne Hinds

6. Huda Khan

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Presentation Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2000

Negroponte, N. (1996) Being Digital, Vintage Books.

1. Anne Chang

2. Daniel Perez

3. Chris Sanchez

4. Kelly Bourke

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Presentation Date: Monday, April 10, 2000

Lynch, K. (1960) The Image of the City. Cambridge: The MIT Press

http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262620014

1. Nelson Carpentier

2. Shane Church

3. Craig Morrison

4. Scott Posch

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Presentation Date: Monday, April 17, 2000

Mitchell, Wm. (1996) City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn. Cambridge: The MIT Press

http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262631768

1. James Davidson

2. Arjune Mirchandani

3. Jeffrey Rose

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Presentation Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000

Schön, D; Sanyal, B.; and Mitchell, Wm. (eds.) (1998) High Technologies and Low Income Communities. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=026269199X

1. Gabe Johnson

2. Lian Liu

3. Aaron Martin

4. Leo Burd

5. Michele Payton

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Presentation Date: Monday, April 24, 2000

Postman, N. (1993) Technopoly — The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Vintage Books, New York.

1. Eric Dick

2. Scott Linemeyer

3. Anthony Ressler

4. Kirsten Davis

5. Julie Schenk

6. Troy Weingart