COMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Darpa, Packet Switching, Analytical Engine
20 Mar 2019
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Infomagical challenge: listen to the five infomagical challenge podcast episodes from wnyc"s note to. Agenda: announcements, what"s new about new media , the pre-history of digital media, digital interactivity. Interactive media (video games: networked media (the internet) All media were once new media, and even the newest media have a history. Digitization: process of translating any kind of information into binary code, enables a machine to perform logical operations, any system that has discrete components with on/off states can be a digital computer. 2 engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent: ada king-noel, countess of lovelace, grace hopper (us navy) created the term bug after pulling one out from a computer. Mass communications: from one sender to many, unknown receivers, little to no feedback between producers and audiences, capital intensive: expensive to produce, cheap to reproduce, usually presupposes division of labour.
