Readings/Handouts

Readings for the course will include:

Ivan Amato, Stuff [excerpts]
New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Andrew Berlin and Kaigham J. Gabriel
"Distributed MEMS: New Challenges for Computation"
IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, Jan-March 1997, pp. 12-16.

Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles [excerpts]
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984.

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, "Why We Need Things"
In Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery, eds. History from Things.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press. 1993. pp. 20-29.

Exploratorium Cookbooks [excerpts].
San Francisco Exploratorium

Gerald Holton, "Faraday's 'Advice to a Lecturer, ' Updated"
In Einstein, History, and Other Passions. Woodbury, NY: AIP Press. 1995.
Pp. 265-293.

Mitchel Resnick, Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1994.

Mark Weiser, "Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing."
In Communications of the ACM, July 1993, pp. 74-84.