Now this is not the kind of stuff that computer scientists spend all their time doing, but it will germane.
现在,这并不是计算机科学家,要花费全部时间的地方,不过与此密切相关。
Alright, when I was an undergraduate, I was Computer Engineering and Math.
我本科的时候学的是计算机工程与数学。
And the answer is, unlike many, unlike commercially generated computers, the brain works through parallel processing, massively parallel distributed processing.
问题的答案是这样的,与出于商业目的而制造的计算机不同,大脑采用并行加工的方式处理信息,采用广泛分布的并行加工
You just need to come up with a convention that maps the numbers that are very easy for a computer to store.
你只需要提出一个使之与数字对应的协定,那样计算机就可以方便地存储它们。
And part of the reason for putting it up is that I want to, as much as possible, answer that question by separating out the mechanism, which is the computer from computational thinking. Right.
提出这个问题的原因有一部分在于,我想尽量,将计算机与,计算思维分开,来回答它。
Now, I think it is plausible to suggest that unlike the case of chess-playing computers, we don't yet have machines that feel things.
现在,我想我们有理由认为,与象棋计算机的例子不同,我们现在还没有能感觉事物的机器
Engineering - meaning computer science-related engineering.
这里的工科指的是与计算机相关工程科学。
Well, the infinity mechanism, and many of you will be familiar with this from mathematics or computer science, is recursion.
这种无限机制是递归的,你们许多人会在数学与计算机科学中,熟悉这个词
But the technology and the fundamentals and the ideas, it's pretty much exactly the same as we're using today in some of our modern computers.
但是那个时候的技术,基本原理,以及相应的想法与,现代计算机完全一致。
Your computer works on wires and electricity but your brain uses tissue and tissue is extremely slow.
你的计算机依靠电线与电流而得以运行,但你的大脑应用的则是组织,而组织的反应则是相当缓慢的
But whatever your reason for being here this is in fact our introduction to Computer Science; and contrary to what you might have heard or seen or perceived in high school, odds are computer science is not quite what you imagined it to be.
但是不管你们来这儿的原因是什么,这门课介绍的都是计算机科学,可能与你们平时听到的看到的,或者在高中时所想象的恰好相反,计算机技术的优势完全不是你想象的那样。
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