Readings (available via course website):

• CMR article Chance and Order, Stanislaw Lem, New Yorker 59 (1984) 88–98.
• CMR article Revealing Order in the Chaos, Mark Buchanan, New Scientist, 26 February 2005; available at http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/news/.

Topics:

1. Recall Physics 2⁸A
2. Introduction and motivations
3. Inadequacy of Information Theory
4. Structure and Learning
5. Survey interests, background, and abilities
6. Course logistics
7. CMPy Labs
8. Projects
9. Software and program development