CDS 241 Course details (Spring 2018)

CDS 270 Course Details

There are videos, slides, and reading in a dropbox folder.

Course videos and slides are in subfolder CDS270.

Currently there is just one set of videos in this subfolder:

1.Overview These give a quick overview of the questions motivating this class, primarily using the human nervous system, but mentioning bacteria and the Internet. These will also be the first videos to watch for the class. There is also a folder with some related papers.

I'll continue to add to these.

You might want to download the videos, as dropbox will run them in preview mode, which limits their length.

Initial schedule

Tu Apr 4 Discussion about 1.Overview 2.NeuroIntroTheory

Th Apr 6 Demos and questions on Driving game, balancing, and Theory questions and clarifications

Tu Apr 11 Discussion about 3.Balance 3.x1.ExtrasVision

If you are interested in medicine and/or biology see: 4.MedPhysio&HeartRateVar 5.BioGlycoOscillate If there is interest we'll have a week later to focus on these.

Recommended books

These are popular books for a general audience available in audio format.

Nick Lane, The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life Audible

Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution Audible

Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary, Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy - and How to Make Them Work for You Audible

Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life Audible

Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Audible

Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War Audible

Kathleen McAuliffe, This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society Audible