| Friedrich Kittler talking about computers as prescient knowledge, distributing cognition and information, feedback, cybernetics and computing power. In this lecture, Professor Kittler iterates the evolution of fundamental structures of programming language, developing from C to C++ (congruous to the theories of Leibnitz vs. Boole), Pascal, Java (developed by James Gossling), input and output devices, algorithms to operating systems. European Graduate School EGS |