Comment by aj7
8 years ago
Catching the disease of cellular automata isn’t a good thing. Fredkin was also affected. This young person has many years to do useful things.
8 years ago
Catching the disease of cellular automata isn’t a good thing. Fredkin was also affected. This young person has many years to do useful things.
Unfortunately it was cancer from the radiation of atomic bomb tests that killed John von Neumann far too early, not his experiments with cellular automata.
https://www.hnf.de/en/permanent-exhibition/exhibition-areas/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...