Iterative circuit computers

  • Authors:
  • John H. Holland

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

  • Venue:
  • IRE-AIEE-ACM '60 (Western) Papers presented at the May 3-5, 1960, western joint IRE-AIEE-ACM computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1960

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Abstract

The paper first discusses an example of a computer, intended as a prototype of a practical computer, having an iterative structure and capable of processing arbitrarily many words of stored data at the same time, each by a different sub-program if desired. Next a mathematical characterization is given of a broad class of computers satisfying the conditions just stated. Finally the characterization is related to a program aimed at establishing a theory of adaptive systems via the concept of automaton generators.