In this session, we will look at the history of those institutions. This session deals with the history of visual representation and understanding. We begin with a review of the place of visual skills in Renaissance art, science and technology. In the second half of the session, we look at the impact of computer graphics on the sciences, and the growth of modeling and simulation techniques. Management and Memory Large collections of information, as anyone who's looked for a book in a randomly arranged bookshelf, or a videotape in a large pile knows, can become useless unless they're organized.
Organization of information is a prerequisite for access to information.
In this session, we look at the history of information management. We'll look at the development of memory systems and mnemonics, and their place in educated life in the ancient and medieval worlds. Those systems will be the focus of the second half of class. Also, Augustine's classic description of memory in his Confessions is worth reviewing. This session examples the relationship between communication technology and community.