In this graduate seminar, we aim to understand computing and information as technological, scientific, social, and cultural phenomena from a historical perspective. Drawing from the insights in the history of technology, history of mathematics, STS, media studies, business history, intellectual history, and security studies, we examine the histories of, e.g., artificial intelligence, big data, cyberspace, information infrastructure, theories and imageries of computation and mind, open source, human-machine relations, tech-industrial ecosystems, and geopolitics of semiconductor supply chains. Our geographical scope is transnational, as we focus not only on crucial developments in the US — often viewed as the epicenter in the history of computing and information — but also those in Western Europe, East and South Asia, and Latin America. In addition, we discuss the historiographical and methodological issues in researching and writing the history of computing and information.