Ideas for Neurocomputational Social Science

Adapting the Ideas of Translational Science for Translational Family Science.

Family science has been doing translational science since before it came into vogue. Nevertheless, the field has been subjected to the same forces in the broader academy that have created a widening chasm between discovery and practice. Thus, the primary objective of this article is to translate the principles, concepts, and models of translational science to solidify an identity for family sci...

Fundamental Ideas of Computer Science

data type. Horizontal criterion: Used in all forms of specifying objects that stress operations and their properties without relating to an implementation. Vertical criterion: (P) The natural numbers may be defined as an abstract data type with constants 1 and operations +1 and -1. The same holds for the blocks world: On a table there is a number of blocks that may be piled up. Operations are p...

: Nine Crazy Ideas in Science

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Social science. Computational social science.

Communicating Mathematics: Useful Ideas from Computer Science

1.1 Purpose This article describes certain ideas originating in the theory and practice of computer science, and shows how the teaching and exposition of mathematics could bene ̄t if these ideas were widely understood by mathematicians and used in their teaching and writing. These ideas are discussed here because I believe they are important for mathematicians to understand. Some of them are bas...