Calendar | Information Technology and the Labor Market

 

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Setting the Stage - Incomes, Occupations and Wages  
2-3 Two Early Views of Computers' Impacts  
4-5 Does Technology Complement "Skill"?  
6-7 Cognition I - Perceiving What Task is to be Done  
8 IT and Tasks I: Rules Based Applications Including Expert Systems  
9-10 IT and Tasks II: Pattern Recognition and Computer Learning  
11

Computer Vision

Guest Lecture - Prof. Todd Zickler, Harvard University

Two-person paper proposal due
12

Computer Speech Recognition

Guest Lecture - Dr. T. J. Hazen, CSAIL, MIT

 
13 Implementing Computers and the Reorganization of Work  
14

Radiology Imaging

Guest Lecture - Dr. Polina Golland, CSAIL, MIT (Subject to Change)

 
15 Implementing Computers and the Reorganization of Work (cont.)  
16 Midterm Exam  
17-19 Cognition II - What People Get Paid For: Expert Thinking and Complex Communication  
20-21 IT and Markets  
22 IT and Outsourcing  
23

How Can Computers Substitute for/Complement Classroom Teachers?

Guest Lecture - Dr. Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service

 
24-25 IT and Productivity  
26 Wrap-up  

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