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From: mlc@iberia.cca.rockwell.com (Michael Cook)
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Subject: SUMMARY: Book: Conway's "Life" as a computer
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Earlier, I asked:
     >I'm looking for the title and author of a book I read a few years ago
     >that explained the development of Conway's game of "Life" into its use
     >as a computer (possibly a Turing machine).

The book I was looking for is:

"The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific
Knowledge", by William Poundstone, New York: Morrow, 1985, ISBN 0-688-03975-8.
Subjects: Self-organizing Systems, Machine Theory.

as suggested by:
sje@mv.mv.com (Steven J. Edwards)
chess@uibrl.brl.uiuc.edu (Christopher P. Hess)
billk@cs.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley)

chess@uibrl.brl.uiuc.edu (Christopher P. Hess) also wrote:
Interesting stuff.  Look up Christopher Langton's publications
if you want to get more of the artificial life perspective.

hfinney@shell.portal.com wrote:
You might be referring to "Three Scientists and their Gods", if I remember
the title correctly.

which is not what I was looking for, but could be interesting.

roca_michael@tandem.com (Michael Roca) also wrote:
I believe I saw the "Life" discussion in _The Armchair Universe_.
(written by A.K.Dewdney)
The book has a number of math/computer items of interest.

Michael Cook
MLC@IBERIA.CCA.ROCKWELL.COM
These are not the opinions of my employer.
