You can find related material on different areas of CS over time, including some foundational resources on topics we cover.

Resources (by Topic)

University of Washington CSE

• WayBack Machine cs.washington.edu website (Dec. 21, 1996) - a fun adventure :)
• Ed Lazowska's page on the history of CSE at UW
• MSB feature with UW CSE history and introduction to CS1 as the "New CSE Building" in 2003
• History of UW CSE Growth (last updated 2019)

Game Theory

• Stanford Online Overview of Game Theory. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/
• Conway, J. On Numbers and Games (1976). Highly recommended book on foundations in game theory, inspiration for some of the games introduced in Game Theory week!
• Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game-Theoretical Semantics (another recommended book - Hintikka was a prominent 20th-century figure in game theory)
• Knuth's Surreal Numbers

Graphics

• Weisberg, D. The Engineering Design Revolution (2008). http://cadhistory.net
• Blomgren, R. and Kasik, D. "Early Investigation, Formulation, and Use of NURBS at Boeing". ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics (2002)
• Krull, F.N. "The origin of computer graphics within General Motors".IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (1994)
• Sutherland, I. Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System. (Technical Report, updated 2003)
• Massironi, M. The Psychology of Graphic Images: Seeing, Drawing, Communicating. (2001)
• Peddie, J. The History of Visual Magic in Computers: How Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR. (2013)
• The Friendly Orange Glow, recommended in class (link to interesting article about writing the book, which also links to the book)
• Biography of Loren Carpenter (a UW CSE graduate) who was introduced in Week 4's talk with an interesting influence in computer graphics/industry and a SIGGRAPH 1980 computer-generated movie known as "Vol Libre".