Thermodynamics and CSE599

• Weeks 1 – 4: Introductory course material

  • Week1: The technology of digital computers
    • Silicon switches manipulate binary variables with near-zero error
  • Week2: Theoretical aspects of computer science
    • Church–Turing thesis: An algorithmic definition of computability
  • Week3: Information theory
    • An algorithmic definition of information
  • Week4: Thermodynamics
    • The units and physics of computation

• Weeks 5 – 9: Alternative representations and machines

  • Neuronal, DNA, quantum

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