Cellular automaton - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton
A cellular automaton (plural: cellular automata) is a discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, and theoretical biolog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - History Of Cellular Automata
Stanislaw Ulam, while working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1940s, studied the growth of crystals, using a simple lattice ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science
A New Kind of Science is a controversial book by Stephen Wolfram, published in 2002. It introduced and justified the empirical systematic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Automaton: Encyclopedia - Automaton
An automaton (plural: automata) is a self-operating machine. The word is sometimes used to describe a robot, more specifically an autonom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Automaton - History
Automata, from the Greek automatos, “acting of one’s own will, self-moving,” is more often used to describe non-electronic moving m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Digital Organism: Encyclopedia Ii - Digital Organism - History
Digital organisms can be traced back to the game Core War, in which computer programs had to compete with each other and try to stop the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - Criticism Of Nks
The book has attracted several types of criticism. A New Kind of Science - Scientific philosophy. A key tenet of NKS is that the simple...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - Mapping And Mining The Computational Universe
Given that very simple rules often do very complex things, how do we study them? Wolfram believes it is necessary to systematically explo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bootstrapping: Encyclopedia - Bootstrapping
Bootstrapping alludes to a German legend about a Baron Münchhausen, who was able to lift himself out of a swamp by pulling himself up by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - Philosophical Underpinnings
Wolfram believes that one of his achievements is not just exclaiming, "computation is important!", but in providing a coherent system of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - The World Of Simple Programs
The basic subject of Wolfram's "new kind of science" is the study of simple abstract rules — essentially, elementary computer programs....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - Systematic Abstract Science
While Wolfram promotes simple programs as a scientific discipline, he also insists that its methodology will revolutionize essentially ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - Applications And Results
There are a vast number of specific results and ideas in the NKS book, but they can be organized into several themes. One common theme of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - Reception
NKS received unprecedented media publicity for a scientific book, generating scores of articles in places like The New York Times, Newswe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - Response To Criticism
A New Kind of Science - Scientific Philosophy. Wolfram argues that a typical computational system is significantly richer than a typica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A New Kind Of Science: Encyclopedia Ii - A New Kind Of Science - Computation And Its Implications
The thesis of A New Kind of Science is twofold: that the nature of computation must be explored experimentally, and that the results of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Combinatorics Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Combinatorics Topics - Topics In Combinatorics: Alphabetical List
List of combinatorics topics - 0-9. (0,1) matrix List of combinatorics topics - A. Abstract simplicial complex Addition chain Sch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bootstrapping: Encyclopedia Ii - Bootstrapping - Electronics
The term bootstrap has a number of meanings in electronics. In classical analog designs, a bootstrap circuit is an arrangement of compone...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Parallel Computing Systems
The term parallel processor is sometimes used for a computer with more than one processor, available for parallel processing. Systems wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Parallel Computing Systems
The term parallel processor is sometimes used for a computer with more than one processor, available for parallel processing. Systems wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Algorithms
It should not be imagined that successful parallel computing is a matter of obtaining the required hardware and connecting it suitably. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Topics In Parallel Computing
Generic: Automatic parallelization Parallel algorithm Finding parallelism in problems and algorithms Cellular automaton Computer scienc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Inter-thread Communication
Parallel computers are theoretically modeled as Parallel Random Access Machines (PRAMs). The PRAM model ignores the cost of interconnecti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Parallel Programming Models
Main article: Parallel programming model A parallel programming model is a set of software technologies to express parallel algorithms an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Parallel Programming
A huge number of software systems have been designed for programming parallel computers, both at the operating system and programming lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Algorithms
It should not be imagined that successful parallel computing is a matter of obtaining the required hardware and connecting it suitably. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Topics In Parallel Computing
Generic: Automatic parallelization Parallel programming Parallel algorithm Finding parallelism in problems and algorithms Cellular autom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bootstrapping: Encyclopedia Ii - Bootstrapping - Computing
The term is believed to have entered computer jargon by way of Heinlein's short story By His Bootstraps. Bootstrapping is generally consi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bootstrapping: Encyclopedia Ii - Bootstrapping - Finance
In finance, bootstrapping refers to the procedure used to calculate the zero coupon yield curve, solving for the maturities where no inst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bootstrapping: Encyclopedia Ii - Bootstrapping - Statistics
In statistics bootstrapping is a method for estimating the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling with replacement from the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Inter-thread Communication
Parallel computers are theoretically modeled as Parallel Random Access Machines (PRAMs). The PRAM model ignores the cost of interconnecti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Parallel Programming Models
Main article: Parallel programming model A parallel programming model is a set of software technologies to express parallel algorithms an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallel Computing: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallel Computing - Parallel Software
A huge number of software systems have been designed for programming parallel computers, both at the operating system and programming lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - Cellular Automata In Nature
Patterns of certain seashells, like the ones in Conus and Cymbiola genus, are generated by natural cellular automata. The pigment cells r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - Related Automata
There are many possible generalizations of the CA concept. One way is by using something other than a rectangular (cubic, etc.) grid. For...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - The Simplest Cellular Automata
The simplest nontrivial CA would be one-dimensional, with two possible states per cell, and a cell's neighbors defined to be the adjacent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - Reversible Cellular Automata
A CA is said to be reversible if for every current configuration of the CA there is exactly one past configuration (preimage). If one thi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - Uses In Cryptography
Rule 30 was originally suggested as a possible stream cipher for use in cryptography. Cellular automata have been proposed for public key...   » Read the article