NOTE: The following Web pages for individual lectures were created in winter 2000 when I was teaching this course last time. As this quarter progresses, I will update each lecture's page before the lecture. The updated pages will be marked accordingly. You are welcome to look at the pages for the lectures ahead, but be advised that the links may be out of date and that some content wil be chnaged..
 

Lectures and Readings (subject to change):
 

Lecture 1. Class Introduction.

10.2.00 Lecture 2. History of Computers & Human-computer interface. UPDATED.

Lecture 3. Human-computer interface (continued); Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds. UPDATED 10.9.00.

Reading: Lunenfeld, Ch. 2, Ch. 7.

Lecture 4. Interactive Multimedia. UPDATED

Reading: Lunenfeld, Ch. 4, Ch. 12.

Lecture 5: Interactive Multimedia (continued).

Reading: Lunenfeld, Ch. 3, Ch. 6.

Lecture 6. Computer Animation / Digital Cinema. UPDATED

Reading: Lunenfeld, Ch. 9.

Lecture 7. Computer Animation / Digital Cinema (continued).

Reading: Lunenfeld, Ch. 5.

Lectures 8. Artificial intelligence. UPDATED .

11.20. No lecture due to instructoir's illness.

11.27. Lecture 9. Artificial Life. UPDATED