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<p>[<em>Subject to change based on enrollment</em>]</p>
<ul>
<li>[Tu 01/23] <strong>Lecture 1</strong> – Introductory lecture on modules, assignments, materials, and policies.</li>
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<li>Required exercises on design representation. Includes SEAS ALL Labs support <strong>[TBD]</strong>. See <u>Reading 1.1.</u></li>
<a href="https://canvas.harvard.edu/files/19278708/download?download_frd=1"> <li>[<u>Assignment1</u> (individual):“A1:Seeing and Spatial Recognition”;Due 02/03.]</li></a>
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<h4 style="font-weight: 600;">Module 1 – Visual Calculating and Rule-Based Design I [Weeks 1-3]</h4>
In this first module, we focus on things designed – the real-world artifacts of human design.
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<li>Basic Elements: Symbols vs Shapes</li>
<li>Part-Relation: Identity vs Embedding</li>
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<li><u>Assignment 1</u> Released (individual); Due 02/06</li>
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<li>Shape Arithmetic</li>
<li>Spatial Relations</li>
<li>Descriptions: Labels, Weights, Decompositions</li>
<li>Seeing, Recognition, and Redescription</li>
<li>Descriptions: Labels and Decompositions</li>
<li>Recognition and Redescription</li>
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<li>1.2. Excerpts on “Pattern Recognition” from John R. Anderson, <em>Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications, 6th Edition</em> (W. H. Freeman and Company, 2005).</li>
<li>1.3. Excerpt from Chapter 13 “Seeing and Believing” in M. Minsky, <em>The Society of Mind</em> (Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1988)</li>
<li>1.4. Excerpt from “Part & Whole” by J. Koenderink (De Clootcrans Press, 2013).</li>
<li>(optional) 1.5. Excerpt from “Developing Musical Structures” by J. S. Bamberger (MIT Faculty Newsletter, 2004).</li>
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<li>Visual Algorithms (Shape Grammars)</li>
<li>Stylistic Analysis and Generation</li>
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<li>[<u>Assignment 2</u> (individual) :“A2: Visual Calculating and Rule-Based Design”; Due 02/22.]</li>
<li><u>Assignment 2 released </u>(individual); Due 02/22.</li>
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<li>[Tue 02/20] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: Student-led Discussion of Readings with Invited Guest</li>
<li>[Tue 02/20] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: Student-led Discussion of Readings with <strong>Invited Guest</strong></li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>Readings:</li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>2.1. Excerpt from <em>The Design of Everyday Things</em> by D. Norman (Basic Books, 2002).</li>
<li>2.2. Excerpt from <em>Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge’s Magical Realm</em>, by G. Stiny (The MIT Press, 2022).</li>
<li>2.3. “What Makes Things,” by Derek Thompson (The Atlantic, January/February, 2017).</li>
<li>2.3. “What Makes Things Cool?” by D. Thompson (The Atlantic, January/February, 2017).</li>
<li>2.4. “The Aesthetics of the Ordinary and Familiar,” Y. Saito (Oxford University Press, 2017).</li>
<li>(optional) <em>Catalogue of Extraordinary Objects</em>, by J. Carelman (Abelard- Schuman, 1974).</li>
<li>(optional) 2.5 <em>Catalogue of Extraordinary Objects</em>, by J. Carelman (Abelard- Schuman, 1974).</li>
<li>(optional) 2.6. Movie scene “Story #1: Art and Artists section” from The French Dispatch (2021) by Wes Anderson.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>Models of Problem-Solving</li>
<li>Models of Learning</li>
<li>The Sciences of the Artificial (Design)</li>
<li>Revisiting The Sciences of the Artificial (Design)</li>
</ul>
<li>[<u>Assignment 3</u> (multi-step team assignment):“A3: Problem-Solving and Learning”; Due: 03/19.]</li>
<li><u>Assignment 3</u> (multi-step team assignment); Due: 03/19.</li>
<li>(optional) Opening movie scene “The Dawn of Man” from 2001: Space Odyssey (1968), by Stanley Kubrick.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Thu 02/29] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: The Design Space</li>
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<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>Design Modeling with Constraint-Graphs and Search</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Tue 03/05] <strong>Guest Lecture - TBD</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Thu 03/07] <strong>Lecture 7</strong>: Computational Learning Part I</li>
<li>[Thu 02/29] <strong>Lecture 7</strong>: Learning as Discernment</li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>Types of Learning</li>
<li>K-NN and Decision Trees</li>
<li>From Observed Instances to Feature Discernment (Embedding)</li>
<li>Visual/Spatial Challenges for Learning from “Design Data”</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Tue 03/12] <strong>Lecture 8</strong>: Computational Learning Part II</li>
<li>[Tue 03/05] <strong>Lecture 8</strong>: Computational Learning Part I</li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>Modeling Neural Nets</li>
<li>Embedding (Learning by Discernment)</li>
<li>Neighbors and Decision Trees</li>
<li>Clustering</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Thu 03/14] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: Exercise on Rules and Learning and Assignment 3 Review</li>
<li>[Thu 03/07] <strong>Lecture 9</strong>: Computational Learning Part II</li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>Learning from Small-Size Data in Design and the Applied Arts</li>
<li>Modeling Neural Nets</li>
<li>Representation Learning</li>
</ul>
<li>[<u>Final Project Handout</u>: “Formulate Your Final Project”; Due: 04/11]</li>
<li><u>Final Project Handout</u>: “Formulate Your Final Project”; Due: 04/11.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Tue 03/12] <strong>No Class – Spring Recess</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Thu 03/14] <strong>No Class – Spring Recess</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Tue 03/19] Assignment 3 Presentations and Peer-Critique</li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>[Required: Peer-critiques documented and submitted digitally.]</li>
<li>[<u>Assignment 4</u> (multi-step team assignment):“A4: Human-AI Interaction”; Due: 04/01.]</li>
<li><u>Assignment 4</u> (multi-step team assignment):Presentation: 03/28, Due: 04/02.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Thu 03/21] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: Human-AI Interaction Evaluation, sponsored by <a href="#">HILT</a></li>
<li>[Thu 03/21] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: Human-AI Interaction Evaluation</li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>[Required: In-Class Group Work with Mandatory Documentation and Presentation.]</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Tue 03/26] Class Activity: Human-AI Interaction Evaluation (continued)</li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>[Required: In-Class Group Work with Mandatory Documentation and Presentation.]</li>
</ul>
<li>[Tue 03/26] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: Human-AI Interaction Evaluation (continued)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Thu 03/28] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: Assignment 4 Presentations and Peer-Critique</li>
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<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>Readings:</li>
<ul style="margin-left: 25px;">
<li>4.1. Excerpt from “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by A. M. Turing
<li>3.1. Excerpt from “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by A. M. Turing
(Mind 49, 1950).</li>
<li>4.2. “Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search” by A. Newell and H. A. Simon (1975 ACM Turing Award Lecture).</li>
<li>4.3. “The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial,” Chapter 5 in <em>The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Edition</em> by H. A. Simon (The MIT Press, 1996).</li>
<li>4.4. “Introduction,” Chapter 1 in <em>Deep Learning</em> by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville (The MIT Press, 2016).</li>
<li>4.5. Excerpt from <em>What is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work?</em> By Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Media, Inc., 2023).</li>
<li>4.6. “AI And the Limits of Language,” by J. Browning and Y. LeCun (Noema, August 23, 2022).</li>
<li>4.7. “Formulations of the <em>Generative</em> in Design, Science and Technology,” by A. Haridis (Leonardo, 2023, forthcoming).</li>
<li>3.2. “The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial,” Chapter 5 in <em>The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Edition</em> by H. A. Simon (The MIT Press, 1996).</li>
<li>3.3. “AI And the Limits of Language,” by J. Browning and Y. LeCun (Noema,
August 23, 2022).</li>
<li>3.4. “Point 2” and “Point 3” in Chapter 4 from Art in the After-Culture by B. Davis (Haymarket Books, 2022).</li>
<li>3.5. “Formulating the Generative in Design, Science and Technology,” by A. Haridis (Prepared Reading, 2024).</li>
<li>(optional) 3.6. “Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search” by A. Newell and H. A. Simon (1975 ACM Turing Award Lecture).</li>
<li>(optional) 3.7. “Introduction,” Chapter 1 in Deep Learning by I. Goodfellow, Y. Bengio and A. Courville (The MIT Press, 2016).</li>
<li>(optional) 3.8. “The End of Programming” by Matt Welsh (Communications of the ACM, 2023).</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul><ul>
<li>[Thu 04/04] <strong>Guest Lecture - TBD</strong></li>
<li>[Thu 04/04] <strong>Class Activity</strong>: Student-led Discussion and Analysis of Readings (continued)</li>
</ul>
</section>
<h4 style="font-weight: 600;">Module 4: Reflections and Final Projects [Weeks 12-14]</h4>
<p>The last module reinforces key ideas and dedicates time for final project development.</p>
<section style="margin-left: 25px;">
<ul>
<li>[Tue 04/09] Final Projects Work In-Progress Crit</li>
<li>[Tue 04/09] <strong>Final Projects Draft Due and In-Class Presentation</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Thu 04/11] <strong>Midway Final Projects Review</strong></li>
<li>[Thu 04/11] Final Projects Work In-Progress Crit</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>[Tue 04/16] Final Projects Work In-Progress Crit</li>
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<li>[Tue 04/23] Wrap-up Lecture / Final Projects Work In-Progress Crit. <strong>Last day of class for ES138.</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>(Spring term reading period)</li>
<li>(Spring term reading period begins.)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Final Project Presentations</strong> (Tuesday May 7, 9:00am – 12:00pm, Room in SEC <strong>TBD</strong>)</li>
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