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  • CMPU-353: Bioinformatics
    • Lectures: Tue/Thu 1-3pm
  • Office hours:
    • tbd, and by appointment
  • Bioinformatics (phylogenetic analysis, evolutionary robotics)
  • Models of Parallel and Distributed Computation
  • Unifying Theories of Programming

Computer Science is the art of turning constants into variables. –Donald Knuth

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. –Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man Month)

Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world. –Alan Kay

Though OOP came from many motivations…the small scale [motivation] was to find a more flexible version of assignment, and then to try to eliminate it altogether. –Alan Kay, The Early History of SmallTalk

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. –Philip Greenspun

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