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    John von Neumann's universal constructor is a self-replicating machine in a cellular automaton (CA) environment. It was designed in the 1940s, without...
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  • for building a large class of nanomachines including itself Von Neumann universal constructor, an abstract device capable of constructing all constructible...
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    is named after John von Neumann, who used it to define the von Neumann cellular automaton and the von Neumann universal constructor within it. It is one...
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  • computing devices Von Neumann universal constructor – Self-replicating cellular automaton From lecture transcript attributed to John von Neumann, as quoted by...
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  • regular ring von Neumann spectral theorem von Neumann stability analysis von Neumann universal constructor von Neumann universe von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel...
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    similar way to von Neumann's universal constructor, but never gave a complete implementation. In the 1940s and '50s, John von Neumann posed the following...
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  • nature. A von Neumann probe is a spacecraft capable of replicating itself. It is a concatenation of two concepts: a Von Neumann universal constructor (self-replicating...
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    design is known as the tessellation model, and is called a von Neumann universal constructor. Motivated by questions in mathematical logic and in part...
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    copy of its initial configuration of cells. The Von Neumann universal constructor based on the von Neumann cellular automaton was fleshed out in his posthumous...
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  • von Neumann's design Self-replicating machine, a class of machines that can replicate themselves Universal constructor (disambiguation) Von Neumann probes...
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    self-replication, and they were used in von Neumann's universal constructor. Nobili cellular automaton is a variation of von Neumann's cellular automaton, augmented...
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    design is known as the tessellation model, and is called a von Neumann universal constructor. Also in the 1940s, Norbert Wiener and Arturo Rosenblueth...
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    atmosphere Von Neumann universal constructor – Self-replicating cellular automaton Virus – Infectious agent that replicates in cells Von Neumann machine...
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    space. The von Neumann probe is one theoretical example of such a machine. Von Neumann also worked on what he called the universal constructor, a self-replicating...
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  • Conway's Game of Life, of universal computation, and of self-replication (e.g., as in a Von Neumann universal constructor). Moreover, the general construction...
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  • self-stabilization, homeostasis self-replication self-reference recursion reproduction feedback loop cause and effect von Neumann universal constructor...
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    eventually filling the whole array. Other rules including the Von Neumann universal constructor, Codd's cellular automaton, and Langton's loops also have...
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    Spindle Stereolithography Thermistor Thermocouple Ultimaker Von Neumann universal constructor Hamzah, Hairul Hisham; Saiful, Arifin Shafiee; Aya, Abdalla;...
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    heat sintering Solid freeform fabrication Stereolithography Von Neumann universal constructor Lekurwale, Srushti; Karanwad, Tukaram; Banerjee, Subham (2022-06-01)...
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    hardware Rapid tooling Transportable Applications Environment Von Neumann universal constructor "Rapid Prototyping: An Overview". Efunda.com. Retrieved 2013-06-14...
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    sufficiently versatile to allow them to be used to make a von Neumann universal constructor". RepRap technology has great potential in educational applications...
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    Loops (Loops) Turing Artificial Neural Networks (Turing) Von Neumann's Universal Constructor (UConst) Wolfram's Cellular Automata (Wolfram) Firing Squad...
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  • John von Neumann (1903–1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He had perhaps the widest coverage...
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  • states, but von Neumann felt he needed the complexity in order for it to function not just as a self-replicating "machine", but also as a universal computer...
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  • Desc(X) -> X c : Desc(X) -> Desc(X) where the function 'u' is the "universal" constructor, that constructs everything in its domain from appropriate descriptions...
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    form an ordered field. If formulated in von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory, the surreal numbers are a universal ordered field in the sense that all other...
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  • von Neumann ordinal is a von Neumann ordinal and the von Neumann ordinals are strictly well-ordered by membership. It follows that the class of von Neumann...
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    synthesized with certain constructions called "universal constructors". There is a universal constructor that starts with only 15 gliders, with a construction...
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  • {T}}_{2}\times \ldots \times {\mathsf {T}}_{n}} and the projections are term constructors: π 1 ( x ) : T 1 ,   π 2 ( x ) : T 2 ,   … ,   π n ( x ) : T n {\displaystyle...
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  • Von Neumann Machine A machine which is able to build a working copy of itself using materials in its environment. Von Neumann Probe A von Neumann Machine...
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