Class Business

Results of Survey on Real-time Subtitling of Prof. Liu’s Lectures

Results of English 25 (Spring 2025) survey on whether Prof. Liu should use real-time subtitling during his slide lectures. A table with bar graph shows 35 responses. 77% of respondents (27 respondents) answered "yes." 20% (7 respondents) answered "no." — Results of English 25 (Spring 2025) survey on whether Prof. Liu should use real-time subtitling during his slide lectures.

Upcoming readings.

Get started reading the novel, Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. (Read at to page 88 by Friday’s class if possible. If not, a minimum is the first two chapters, pp. 1-30.)

First essay assignment (due end of this week)

Demo of “AI Challenge” option

Midterm exam: 50-minute in-class exam on Monday May 5th

Lecture 10

Computer Revolution (1): History of the Computer (continued)

Computer Revolution (2): Rise of the Network