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Most of my favourites have already been listed but one I found particularly interesting was Von Neumann's Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata [0]. [0] http://c
by agentultra 9y ago
Most of my favourites have already been listed but one I found particularly interesting was Von Neumann's Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata [0].
[0] http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/docs/VonNeumann.pdf http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/docs/VonNeumann.pdf
- yaseer 9y ago+1 to this. Von Neumann was well ahead of his time with his automata ideas. I found in interesting how both Von Neumann and Turing turned to analyse biological systems later in their careers.
- ehudla 9y agoSome of you might be interested in an essay I wrote about von Neumann and Norbert Wiener that gives some of the background and context of this work. http://www.ehudlamm.com/outsiders.pdf http://www.ehudlamm.com/outsiders.pdf