COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS, A NEW UNIVERSITY COURSE

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Abstract
Summary: A new course covering major aspects of the use of computers in systematics was recently offered at Michigan State University. The course consisted of lectures delivered by 12 speakers, discussion sessions, and reports on student projects. Topics included computers and systematics, the Flora North America Program, specimen identification and key‐construction by computer, parallels between specimen identification and medical diagnosis, plant disease diagnosis by computer, information problems in paleontology, distribution mapping by computer, biometrics and statistical studies with computers, probabilistic approaches to specimen identification, computers as aids to teaching systematic biology, numerical taxonomy, the modeling of genetic and evolutionary systems, possible computerized nomenclatural aids, and biogeographical analysis with computers.
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  • National Science Foundation (GJ–573)