Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Setting the Stage - Incomes, Occupations and Wages
2-3 Two Early Views of Computers' Impacts
4-5 Does Technology Complement "Skill"?
6-7 Cognition I - Perceiving What Task is to be Done
8 IT and Tasks I: Rules Based Applications Including Expert Systems
9-10 IT and Tasks II: Pattern Recognition and Computer Learning
11

Computer Vision

Guest Lecture - Prof. Todd Zickler, Harvard University

Two-person paper proposal due
12

Computer Speech Recognition

Guest Lecture - Dr. T. J. Hazen, CSAIL, MIT

13 Implementing Computers and the Reorganization of Work
14

Radiology Imaging

Guest Lecture - Dr. Polina Golland, CSAIL, MIT (Subject to Change)

15 Implementing Computers and the Reorganization of Work (cont.)
16 Midterm Exam
17-19 Cognition II - What People Get Paid For: Expert Thinking and Complex Communication
20-21 IT and Markets
22 IT and Outsourcing
23

How Can Computers Substitute for/Complement Classroom Teachers?

Guest Lecture - Dr. Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service

24-25 IT and Productivity
26 Wrap-up