Readings

WEEK 1

Papers and videos mentioned in the class (All Optional):

  1. The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
  2.  Bush’s “As We May Think”
  3.  Licklider’s “Man-Computer Symbiosis”
  4. Book Cyborg by Steve Mann
  5. Book Natural born cyborgs by Andy Clark
  6. Doug Englebart’s famous article: https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

WEEK 2

Required Readings and Videos:

Optional Materials:

Check out this lecture for those of you who need an introduction or refresher on general neuroscience terminology and neuroanatomy, this is a great primer on brain organization and will help structure your questions for Prof. Gabrieli next week.
also if you have time, watch these :

WEEK 3

Required readings for week 3:

Optional Readings:

  • Bell, Gordon (feat.) – Microsoft Researcher Records His Life in Data. WIRED Magazine (link)
  • Bell, Gordon – Total Recall (book)
  • DeVaul, Richard – The Memory Glasses (link)
  • Foer, Joshua – Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (book)
  • Madan – Augmented Memory: A survey of the approaches to remembering more (link)
  • Maguire, Eleanor – The neuroscience of memory (lecture)
  • Pontius, Erin – Exploring Emergent Technology: Memory Augmentation Implants (link)
  • Rhodes, Bradley – Remembrance agent (link)
  • Wilson , Matt – Reading the Minds of Rats (link)

WEEK 4 (Design Project, No readings)

WEEK 5

Required Readings and Videos:

Optional Readings and Videos:

WEEK 6

Required Readings and Videos:

WEEK 7

Optional Readings and Videos:

WEEK 8

Attention Project Presentation

WEEK 9

WEEK 10

 

WEEK 11

Final project presentations