Modern Computing Paradigms
Materials for class on Monday, July 20, 2020
Contents
Slides
Action Items
- Assignment #1
- Try to get up and running with RStudio Cloud.
Points of reflection
- The concept of computation has been around for a long time.
- A lot of activity during the Industrial Revolution
- … and then an explosion circa WWII
- Three fundamental properties of computation.
- Computers versus computer science (informatics)
- Computers versus Computer Science (also known as Information Science)
- What can and cannot be expressed as an algorithm?
- What is the difference between and algorithm and a computer program?
- Try to get up and running with RStudio Cloud.
- Are Antikythera, Napier’s Bones, Jacquard Loom, and the Sun Shadow Board computers?
- How have concepts of information and computer science drifted into the life sciences already?