This course explores the historical, evolutionary, and theoretical aspects of natural language and machine language, tracing their development from ancient computational tools to modern computers. It also examines writing as a system and the complex relationship between information and knowledge. The lectures aim to familiarize students with various writing systems, focusing on the morphological and semantic evolution of Greek written language from antiquity to the present, in comparison with other linguistic systems. By doing so, the course highlights the cultural and social dimensions of writing as a medium for storing, producing, and transmitting knowledge.
Additionally, it investigates the key stages of development and major advancements in writing technology and automated machines—from clay tablets and the abacus to the printing press and modern innovations in digital storage and information processing through computers and the internet. Students gain insight into the evolution of writing techniques and computational devices while critically examining the significance of written language and information processing in shaping human thought and social organization.