| Lecture / Date | Lecture Topic |
| 1 / 26-Sep | Diagnostic test, introductions, what is a computer, what is computer architecture, forces driving architecture: applications, technology, and software |
| 2 / 1-Oct | Discuss Feynman, basic computer organization. |
| 3 / 3-Oct | History and evolution of computing. What are the driving forces. What is the inertia. |
| 4 / 8-Oct | Complete discussion of computer organization. Technology evolution. |
| 5 / 10-Oct | The role of technology in the evolution of computers. Technology generations, the wheel of reincarnation. |
| BBQ / 14-Oct | Barbecue at Bill's house - 5PM |
| 6 / 15-Oct | What can we do with today's technology, how close are we coming |
| 7 / 17-Oct | The contemporary microprocessor |
| 8 / 22-Oct | The contemporary microprocessor (continued) |
| 9 / 24-Oct | The relationship between software and architecture. Compilers. |
| 10 / 29-Oct | Operating systems |
| 11 / 31-Oct | Graphics and graphics architecture |
| 12 / 5-Nov | Commercial and scientific applications |
| 13 / 7-Nov | John Hennessy guest lecture |
| 14 / 12-Nov | Discussion - is the time right for a revolution in architecture now? Driving forces vs. inertia. |
| 15 / 14-Nov | Parallelism |
| 16 / 19-Nov | Locality |
| 17 / 21-Nov | Reconfigurable computing |
| 18 / 26-Nov | Vectors and data flow |
| 19 / 28-Nov | Streams |
| 20 / 3-Dec | Student presentations |
| 21 / 5-Dec | Student presentations |