Artificial Life  -  Steven Levy

the quest for a new creation

KORTE INHOUD

This book looks at artificial life science - A-Life, an important new area of scientific research involving the disciplines of microbiology, evolutionary theory, physics, chemistry and computer science. In the 1940s a mathematician named John von Neumann, a man with a claim to being the father of the modern computer, invented a hypothetical mathematical entity called a cellular automaton. His aim was to construct a machine that could reproduce itself. In the years since, with the development of hugely more ...
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1993 Uitgever: Penguin 390 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140231056 ISBN-13: 9780140231052