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TOPICS |
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READINGS |
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Some First Puzzles |
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Autor, David, Lawrence Katz, and Alan B. Krueger. "Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?" Quarterly Journal of Economics (Nov. 1998): 1169-1213.
Gottschalk, Peter. "Inequality, Income Growth and Mobility: The Basic Facts." Journal of Economic Perspectives (Spring 1997): 21-40.
Krueger, Alan B. "How Computers have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Microdata, 1984-1989." Quarterly Journal of Economics (Feb. 1993): 33-60. |
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Occupational Change in the Economy |
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Kochan, Tom, and Steve Barley. "Changes in the Structure and Content of Work." Chap. 4 In The Changing Nature of Work: Implications for Occupational Analysis: National Academy Press, 1996 (browse).
Simon, Herbert. "The Corporation: Will it be Managed by Machines?" In Management and the Corporations. Edited by M. L. Anshen, and G. L. Bach. pp. 17-55. |
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Technology, Skill, Substitution and Complementarity |
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Attewell, Paul. "What is Skill?" Work and Occupations 17 (1990): 422-448.
Beamish, Anne, Frank Levy, and Richard J. Murnane. "Information Technology and Skill Requirements: Examples from a Car Dealership." in Relix Aruner, Norbert Schreir and Georg Spottl, Die Zukunft computergestutzer Kfz-Diagnose, Bielefield, 2002.
Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F. Katz. "The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity." Quarterly Journal of Economics (Aug. 1998): 693-732.
Griliches, Zvi. "Capital-Skill Complementarity." Review of Economics and Statistics (Nov. 1969): 465-468. |
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Cognition I: Perceiving What Task is to be Done |
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Anderson, John R. "Perception" (chap. 2), and "Conceptual Knowledge" (pp. 151-168). In Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications. W. H. Freeman, 1995.
Quinn, Paul C. "Category Representation in Young Infants." In Current Directions in Psychological Science. 11 (2), Apr. 2002, pp. 66-70.
Norrestranders, Tors. "The Bandwidth of Consciousness." Chap. 6 In The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size. Penguin Books, 1991. |
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IT and Tasks: Rules Based Applications |
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Research Department of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae). "Understanding Desktop Underwriter", memo dated January 14, 2000. (see also:
http://www.efanniemae.com/singlefamily/technology_tools/other/streamlined_app.jhtml)
Bowen, Kenneth A. "Rules-Based Management of Options Trading." PC-AI, Jan/Feb 2000, pp. 16-20. (Optional: Horgan, Terry, and John Tienson. "Rules and Representations." In The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, available online at http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/horgan.html) |
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Knowledge Based Systems (Guest Lecture - Randy Davis, AI Lab) |
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Davis, Randall. "Knowledge Based Systems." Science Magazine, Feb. 28, 1968, pp. 957-963. |
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Pattern Recognition and Computer Learning (Guest Lecture - Tommi Jakkolla, AI Lab) |
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Duda, Richard O., Peter E. Hart, and David G. Stork. Chap. 1 in Pattern Classification. 2nd Edition. (browse) |
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Two Applications Involving Computer Learning, Substitution and Complementarity |
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Autor, David, Frank Levy, and Richard J. Murnane. "Upstairs, Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank." Industrial and Labor Relations Review (Apr. 2002).
Blois, Marsden S. "Clinical Judgment and Computers." New England Journal of Medicine, 303 (Jul. 24, 1980): 192-197. (Optional: Jordan, Michael I. "Neural Networks." In MIT Encyclopedia, op cit. available on line at: http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/jordan2.html).
Chidley, Elise. "Assessing New Mamography Technologies." Originally published in Radiology Today, reprinted in R2IT News (http://www.r2tech.com/main/home/index.php). |
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Computer Speech Recognition (Guest Lecturer - Jim Glass, Lab for Computer Science) |
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Zue, V. W., and J. R. Glass. "Conversational Interfaces: Advances and Challenges." Proceedings of the IEEE. Aug 2000, pp. 1166-1180. |
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Computer Visual Recognition (Guest Lecturer - Eric Grimson, AI Lab) |
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Grimson, W. E. L., and J. L. Mundy. "Applications of Computer Vision." Communications of the ACM (Special Issue on Commerical and Industrial AI''), 37(3) (1994): 45-51. |
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Information Technology and the Reorganization of Work |
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Orlikowski, Wanda J. "Evolving with Notes: Organizational Change Around Groupware Technology." Chap. 2 in Groupware and Teamwork. Edited by Claudio U. Ciborra, and Katheryn Shaw.
"By What Means Does Information Technology Affect Employment and Wages? The Value of IT, HRM Practices and Knowledge Capital." In Information Technology, Employment and Earnings.
Thesmer, David, and Mathias Thoenig. "Creative Destruction and Firm Organizational Choice: A New Look into the Growth-Inequality Relationship." Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 115 (4) (2000): 1209-38. |
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Cognition II: What People Get Paid For - Expert Thinking and Complex Communication |
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"How Experts Differ from Novices." Chap. 2 in How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. National Academy Press, 2000.
"The Tree of Talking." Chap. 5 in Norrestranders, op cit. David A. Friedman and Steven C. Currall, "Email Escallation: Dispute Exacerbating Elements of Electronic Communication." Undated Working Paper, Vanderbilt University.
Daft, Richard L., Robert H. Lengel, and Linda K. Trevino. "Message Equivocality, Media Selection, and Manager Performance: Implications for Information Systems." MIS Quarterly, (September 1987): 355-366. |
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IT and Markets |
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Autor, David. "Wiring the Labor Market." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15 (1) (Winter 2001): 25-40. "Life After Dotcom Death." The Economist (Oct. 5, 2002).
Smith, Michael D., Joseph Bailey, and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assessment." Chap. XX in Understanding the Digital Economy. Edited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Brian Kahin. 2000. |
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IT and Productivity |
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Gordon, Robert J. "Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14 (4) (Fall 2000): 48-74.
Executive Summary and Synthesis of Findings from McKinsey and Company, How IT Enables Productivity Growth, Oct. 2002.
Olnier, Stephen, and Daniel E. Sichel. "Information Technology and Productivity: Where Are We Now And Where Are We Going?." Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, (Third Quarter 2002): 15 ff (appendix optional). |
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Can Computers Substitute for Teachers? |
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Dede, Christopher. "Emerging Influences of Information Technology on School Curriculum." Journal of Curriculum Studies, (2000).
Lesgold, Alan M. "The Nature and Methods of Learning by Doing." mimeo. School of Education, University of Pittsburgh. May 2, 2002. |
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Wrap-up |
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