What role has the University of Illinois played in the development of information and communication technologies?
Chip Bruce
(chip@uiuc.edu)
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Rationale of the Unit
| Museums often offer a walking tour for their key exhibits. The guide for this may be a person, or it may be in the form of a brochure, an annotated map, or an audio recording. Today we are beginning to see cyberdocents as guides for these tours. This unit contains acitvities to learn about the history of information and communication technologies, and specifically the role of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, by writing a guide for a tour of key events in that history. |
Activities and Open-ended problems
Walking Tour
Write a guide for a tour (physical or virtual) of key events in the history of information and communication technologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pick 6 items from the list below. For each item say what's surprising or especially interesting to you, 2-3 sentences on each. If there's a physical manifestation of it--a building, a plaque, a museum exhibit-- be sure to include that as well. - the "talking, laughing, singing, and weeping screen" (physics building?)
- Mathematica
- Mosaic
- Eudora
- Telnet
- Illiac
- HAL
- computer music (see plaque near the Music building)
- Plato (CERL building on Matthews St.; where is Plato now?)
- The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog
- Prairienet
- the CAVE
- optional: add your own
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Assessment, Related Questions, and Story of the Unit
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