CSS 660 Computational Social Science for Spacefaring Civilization

Focus on goals, resources, history and modeling issues concerning human and social dimensions of the space program using CSS.
Design and development of socially viable human communities in extreme environments.
SYLLABUSGoals in Space 650K PDFSOFTWARE
Computational Social SciencesW. S. Bainbridge website
Space Exploration Links:
Mars Rovers Cassini Saturn missionHubble Space Telescope
NASA home pageNASA return to MoonApollo Program history
NASA Space StationJet Propulsion LaboratoryKennedy Space Center
Air & Space MuseumSpace HistoryNews from Space.com
Sky & Telescope magazineAstronomy MagazineRussian Space Web
European Space AgencyChina Nat. Space Admin.Aerospaceguide.net
Space-Oriented Organizations:
Am. Inst. Aeronautics & AstronauticsBritish Interplanetary SocietyThe Planetary Society
National Space SocietyThe Mars SocietySETI Institute
Computing:
Computer History MuseumHistory of Computing ProjectVa Tech History of Computing
NSF Computer DirectorateAssn. Computing MachineryInst. Electrical & Electronics Eng.
Robotics Links:
DARPA Grand ChallengeSebastian ThrunWTEC robotics study
Industrial RobotsCMU Robotics InstituteRobotics in Japan
Artificial Intelligence Laboratories:
MITStanford UniversityUniversity of Washington
Multi-Agent SystemsUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Texas
University of ArizonaGeorgia TechAI on the Web
Future-Oriented Organizations:
World Future SocietyWorld Transhumanist AssociationKurzweilAI.net
Popular Culture:
Star TrekStar WarsBabylon 5
Space CadetScience Fiction WritersCenter for Glitch Studies