Books Presentations in the Course
Remarks:
You (and
your team) should have selected a book of greatest interest to
YOU.
Read the
book (possibly assigning sections to individual members of your
group).
Discuss
the content, importance, weaknesses of the books.
Produce a
3 5 page summary of the book and post it a week before your
presentation on the class website emphasizing
the
relevance of the book to the class as a whole and
the
specific relationships to individual themes in the course
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.
Michael Webster
Taro Adachi
Bradley Crysel
Lu Fan
Arianne Hinds
Huda Khan
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Presentation Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2000
Negroponte, N. (1996) Being
Digital, Vintage Books.
Anne Chang
Daniel Perez
Chris Sanchez
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
Nelson Carpentier
Shane Church
Craig Morrison
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
James Davidson
Arjune Mirchandani
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
Gabe Johnson
Lian Liu
Aaron Martin
Leo Burd
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.
Eric Dick
Scott Linemeyer
Anthony Ressler
Kirsten Davis
Julie Schenk
Troy Weingart
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