Date	Topics	Slides and Reading Material
1. Monday February 24^th	NO CLASS
Thursday February 27^th	NO CLASS
2. Monday March 2^th	Course Introduction	Slides “Computing: The Fourth Great Domain of Science” (P. Denning, P. Rosenbloom)
Thursday March 5^th	NO CLASS-LAUREE
3. Monday March 9^th	Science, paradigms and scientific revolutions	Slides
4. Thursday March 12^th	Artefacts in a technological domain An engineering way of being in science	“The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II” (F. Brooks jr.)
5. Monday March 16^th	Experimental Computer Science and Engineering
6. Thursday March 19^th	The universal computer: the road from Leibniz to Turing
7. Monday March 23^rd	Computable functions, computational models and computers	“Computation, Philosophical Issues” (M. Scheutz)
8. Thursday March 26^th	Machine and thought: from the Turing Test to embodied cognition	“Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (A. Turing)
9. Monday March 30^th	“Computer science as empirical inquiry”	“Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry” (A. Newell, H. Simon)
10. Thursday April 2^nd	Minds and programs: the Chinese room argument	“Minds, Brains, and Programs” (J. Searle)
11. Monday April 6^th	Computational models of consciousness
Thursday April 9^th	NO CLASS (HOLIDAYS)
Monday April 13^th	NO CLASS (HOLIDAYS)
12. Thursday April 16^th	AI and Ethics	“What is Computer Ethics?” (J. Moore)
13. Monday April 20^th	Invited lecture by Silvia Crafa (Università di Padova)
Thursday April 23^rd	NO CLASS
14. Monday April 27^th	Final project assignment and discussion
15. Thursday April 30^th	Papers supervision I
16. Monday May 4^th	Papers supervision II
Thursday May 7^th	NO CLASS
17. Monday May 11^th	Papers supervision III
18. Thursday May 14^th	Papers supervision IV
19. Monday May 18^th	Papers supervision V
20. Thursday May 21^st	Papers supervision VI
21. Monday May 25^th	Papers supervision VII
22. Thursday May 28^th	Papers supervision VIII
Monday June 1st	NO CLASS (HOLIDAYS)
23. Thursday June 4^th	Papers supervision IX
24. Monday June 8^th	Papers supervision X