Life as an Algorithm

Introduction

Duane A. Bailey

We begin the semester.

Outline of this class (resources are below)

We discuss the course syllabus.
There are some important threads of thinking, shared between Computer Science and Biology.
There is a new vocabulary that both disciplines will find useful in the coming years. This course builds that vocabulary.

Resources for our next lecture:

A reading from Dewdney's Turing Omnibus, on Turing machines and complexity.
Alan Turing's classic 1937 paper. Read lightly.

Upcoming readings:

A readable article on the basic dogma of biology.
Ian Stewart's article on the frozen accident.
A page from the The Double Helix. Close, but no cigar.

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