There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the sky. In this creation myth, computers arose from the mud, and code fell from the sky.
This sketch of earlier attempts to bring biology to the
Institute for Advanced Study is not a history. I have not dug into
the archives to find official documents and exact dates. I am only
recording my own fallible memories of events that I
either...
