A Survey of Microcellular Research
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A unifying framework for the theory of iterative arrays of machines
STOC '69 Proceedings of the first annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
Simple computation-universal cellular spaces and self-reproduction
SWAT '68 Proceedings of the 9th Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory (swat 1968)
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The late John von Neumann took an interest in a mechanical modeling of self-reproducing phenomena of living things, which are far more complex and purposeful than a mere regeneration of a facsimile of the structures found, for example, in the growth of a crystal in a solution of the constituent substance. After some initial work with some kinematic models of such phenomena, he found a two-dimensional array of identical finite-state machines to be a convenient medium in which to study self- reproducing phenomena represented as the successive state distributions of finite state machines[1].