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From: cohenb@slc.com (Bruce Cohen)
Subject: Re: ALife Texts
In-Reply-To: catsclaw@ix.netcom.com's message of 29 Oct 1995 17:24:04 GMT
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Date: 30 Oct 1995 20:50:46 GMT

In article <470dbk$ht7@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> catsclaw@ix.netcom.com (Ivy Reisner ) writes:

> Levy's book is wonderful in that it covers the aims and history of the
> field in an exciting and informative way.  It does not talk to how to
> implement these algorythems.  At one point it mensions that Conway's
> Life can be used to simulate a Universal Turing Machine but it doesn't
> say how, or why people believe it can be used this way.  Do you know a
> book that covers this ground?

Try "The Recursive Universe" by William Poundstone, Contemporary Books,
1985, ISBN 0-809-25202-3.

Citation details courtesy Powell's Technical Books,
http://www.technical.powells.portland.or.us/
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