Catálogo de la biblioteca Antonio Monteiro - INMABB

"Fifteen essays, five of which have not been published before."

Intended as a companion volume to: Theory of self-reproducing automata / John von Neumann ; edited and completed by Arthur W. Burks. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1966.

Introduction / A. W. Burks -- Von Neumann's self-reproducing automata / A. W. Burks -- Programming and the theory of automata / A. W. Burks -- Toward a theory of automata based on more realistic primitive elements / A. W. Burks -- Self-describing Turing machines and self-reproducing cellular automata / J. W. Thatcher -- Universality in the von Neumann cellular model / J. W. Thatcher -- Machine models of self-reproduction / E. F. Moore -- The converse of Moore's Garden-of-Eden theorem / J. Myhill -- The abstract theory of self-reproduction / J. Myhill -- On some mathematical problems connected with patterns of growth of figures / S. M. Ulam -- On recursively defined geometrical objects and patterns of growth / R. G. Schrandt and S. M. Ulam -- Nonlinear transformation studies on electronic computers / P. R. Stein and S. M. Ulam -- A universal computer capable of executing an arbitrary number of subprograms simultaneously / J. H. Holland -- Iterative circuit computers / J. H. Holland -- Outline for a logical theory of adaptive systems / J. H. Holland -- Hierarchical descriptions, universal spaces, and adaptive systems / J. H. Holland.

Bibliografía: p. [354]-368.

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