Università Roma Tre

The course is organized in two modules:

Module A - The digital world: fundamental notions. The concept of information and digital coding of information; Turing machine, Von Neumann machine, computer; from computers to networks; network topology; history and characteristics of the Internet; introduction to the web and marking languages; introduction to artificial intelligence: strong and weak artificial intelligence, Turing test, connectionism and neural networks; the network as a global medium and the characteristics of on-line communication.

Module B - Introduction to humanistic informatics: the concept of digital humanities and its many definitions; forms of electronic textuality; introduction to text coding; first elements of digital publishing; digital and the world of school and training

The attendance of the lessons and / or the study of the texts relating to module A are preparatory to the attendance of the lessons and / or the study of the texts relating to the module B.

Modulo A: - Fabio Ciotti e Gino Roncaglia, Il mondo digitale, cap. I-IX, Laterza 2000 (14a edizione, 2013)

Modulo B: - Fabio Ciriaci, Informatica per le scienze umane, McGraw Hill Italia 2012
- Gino Roncaglia, L'età della frammentazione, Laterza 2018

Non-attending and attending students who have not passed the written test will integrate these texts with
- Mirko Tavosanis, Lingue e intelligenza artificiale, Carocci 2018