Abstract: The two-dimensional Turing machine is a promising but under used simulation tool for Artificial Life. Single-state 2-D Turing machines exhibit a variety of interesting behaviors, some of ...

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely useful machines or programs that help us solve problems, whereas strong AIs ...

In 1994, a strange, pixelated machine came to life on a computer screen. It read a string of instructions, copied them, and built a clone of itself — just as the Hungarian-American Polymath John von ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) – the ability of machines to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence – emerged as a relatively obscure research field in the mid-1950s, shaped by ...

Classical models of computation are useful for understanding computability in the small; however, they fall short when it comes to analyzing large-scale, complex computations. To address this gap, ...

The word automat is the Latinization of the Greek word αὐτόματον, which means acting of one’s own will. It is more often used to describe moving machines, especially those made to resemble human or ...

Automata is the study and understanding of abstract machines. Automata deals with logical computation, with the basic theories regarding automata helping scientists figure out how machines solve and ...

Automata theory and formal languages form the mathematical foundation of computation, characterising the capabilities and limitations of abstract machines and the languages they recognise. Rooted in ...

The relationship between the thermodynamic and computational properties of physical systems has been a major theoretical interest since at least the 19th century. It has also become of increasing ...

You are at the Princess’s ball, and she is telling you a secret, but her orchestra of bears is making such a fearful lot of noise you cannot hear what she is saying. What do you say, dear? I beg your ...