This blog is the record of an exploration. What is the academic content of computer science? Is computer science a mushroom that burst upon the landscape of science in the 20th century or does it have roots in classical mathematics and physics? What is the nature of the activity of computing?
Groping towards some answers. The slide presentation Nature of Computing tries to locate
the context of computer science firmly in the area of classical mathematical problems. At
the same time it tries to say that computing may be understood as the game of constructing
required structures from specified pieces using specified methods, much like LEGO.
The slide presentation Dynamical Systems tries to show that the concepts of attractors,
chaos, fractals, artificial life, and models for evolution, memory, and dreams all arise
from the study of special cases of the program "repeat x := F(x)".
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