An introduction to core ideas from computer science, with applications drawn from the fields of robotics, image and sound processing, and other areas.

This course explores some of the mathematical underpinnings of computer science. It looks at formal models of the thing we call "computation" and also some formal complexity theory.

Many fields outside of computer science require programming for effective study and analysis of key issues and problems. This course provides an introduction to programming from a general scientific standpoint. The language studied will be MATLAB, which is a powerful but easy-to-use interactive language that provides many utilities for data manipulation, processing, and presentation.