Teaching and Technology

Lunch for New Faculty - CH 3318 - Sept. 30, 1999
Sponsored by SDSU

URL https://stewart.sdsu.edu/www-edcenter/projects/sdsu_sept99.html;
Upd 19Nov2023

Dr. Kris Stewart (stewart@sdsu.edu)
San Diego State University
Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering,
a partnership activity of the NPACI and San Diego Supercomputer Center

This URL is http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/projects/sdsu_sept99.html

Dealing with the MTV-Generation
My students are mostly computer science majors. I find it useful to start off by providing a historical context to really establish the newness of computing.
  1. History of Computing and Supercomputing from Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) - in 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE celebrated the 50th year anniversary of digital computers.
  2. Internet Histories from the Internet SOCiety, ISOC help provide a context for a technology that was born30 years ago.
  3. Students: Computers / Internet = Horse and Buggy days for the New Millenium
  4. Brief History of the Future: the origins of the Internet by John Naughton
    This complements our very America-centric view of the Internet through a British point of view.
Using the Web for Classes [Don't think these materials are perfect, nor dynamic, since Kris is the Web Developer, and only finite time is available to research, contrast, develop, present, ...]
Worth the Investment?
That depends ... let's talk