Automata Studies. (AM-34), Volume 34

by C. E. Shannon, J. McCarthy

Overview

A classic contribution to automata studies from the acclaimed Annals of Mathematics Studies series

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691079165
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/21/1956
Series:	Annals of Mathematics Studies , #34
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• Preface, pg. v
• Contents, pg. ix
• Representation of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata, pg. 3
• Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms From Unreliable Components, pg. 43
• Some Uneconomical Robots, pg. 99
• Some Universal Elements for Finite Automata, pg. 117
• Gedanken-Experiments on Sequential Machines, pg. 129
• A Universal Turing Machine with Two Internal States, pg. 157
• A Note on Universal Turing Machines, pg. 167
• The Inversion of Functions Defined by Turing Machines, pg. 177
• Computability by Probabilistic Machines, pg. 183
• Design for an Intelligence-Amplifier, pg. 215
• The Epistemological Problem for Automata, pg. 235
• Conditional Probability Machines and Conditioned Reflexes, pg. 253
• Temporal and Spatial Patterns in a Conditional Probability Machine, pg. 277