Author: Tommaso Toffoli
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262200608
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Theory of Computation -- Computation by Abstracts Devices.
Cellular Automata Machines
Author: Tommaso Toffoli
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262200608
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Theory of Computation -- Computation by Abstracts Devices.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262200608
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Theory of Computation -- Computation by Abstracts Devices.
Automata
Author: Nick Foulkes
Publisher: Xavier Barral
ISBN: 9782365111348
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Richly illustrated with etchings, manuscripts, and old documents, this book retraces the epic tale of the automaton from ancient times up to the present day. Wondrous objects that are at once scientific and magical, automata testify to the technical research and inventiveness of their designers. In 1675, the astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens invented the spiral spring that would play a leading role in the development of smaller and more precise watches, with highly complex mechanisms. The creation of more complicated wheelwork and the use of extremely meticulous spiral springs gave free rein to clockmakers' imaginations, who invented animated objects that fascinated philosophers and scientists alike. Doctors, thespians and thinkers of the modern world all saw these increasingly lifelike automata: wonderful simulacra of life. These articulated figurines were to inspire thought, science, literature, the performing arts and more. Continuing this tradition, the house of Van Cleef & Arpels has harnessed all of its designers' talents to create an exceptional automaton: a fairy, whose movements celebrate the art of the inventors of past centuries. Immersed in its designer's studio, the reader sees an automaton come to life. Automatais the most substantial survey of this popular topic currently available.
Publisher: Xavier Barral
ISBN: 9782365111348
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Richly illustrated with etchings, manuscripts, and old documents, this book retraces the epic tale of the automaton from ancient times up to the present day. Wondrous objects that are at once scientific and magical, automata testify to the technical research and inventiveness of their designers. In 1675, the astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens invented the spiral spring that would play a leading role in the development of smaller and more precise watches, with highly complex mechanisms. The creation of more complicated wheelwork and the use of extremely meticulous spiral springs gave free rein to clockmakers' imaginations, who invented animated objects that fascinated philosophers and scientists alike. Doctors, thespians and thinkers of the modern world all saw these increasingly lifelike automata: wonderful simulacra of life. These articulated figurines were to inspire thought, science, literature, the performing arts and more. Continuing this tradition, the house of Van Cleef & Arpels has harnessed all of its designers' talents to create an exceptional automaton: a fairy, whose movements celebrate the art of the inventors of past centuries. Immersed in its designer's studio, the reader sees an automaton come to life. Automatais the most substantial survey of this popular topic currently available.
Medieval Robots
Author: E. R. Truitt
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246977
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246977
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
A Playful Path
Author: Bernard De Koven
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304351823
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304351823
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.
Elements of Automata Theory
Author: Jacques Sakarovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139643797
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Automata theory lies at the foundation of computer science, and is vital to a theoretical understanding of how computers work and what constitutes formal methods. This treatise gives a rigorous account of the topic and illuminates its real meaning by looking at the subject in a variety of ways. The first part of the book is organised around notions of rationality and recognisability. The second part deals with relations between words realised by finite automata, which not only exemplifies the automata theory but also illustrates the variety of its methods and its fields of application. Many exercises are included, ranging from those that test the reader, to those that are technical results, to those that extend ideas presented in the text. Solutions or answers to many of these are included in the book.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139643797
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Automata theory lies at the foundation of computer science, and is vital to a theoretical understanding of how computers work and what constitutes formal methods. This treatise gives a rigorous account of the topic and illuminates its real meaning by looking at the subject in a variety of ways. The first part of the book is organised around notions of rationality and recognisability. The second part deals with relations between words realised by finite automata, which not only exemplifies the automata theory but also illustrates the variety of its methods and its fields of application. Many exercises are included, ranging from those that test the reader, to those that are technical results, to those that extend ideas presented in the text. Solutions or answers to many of these are included in the book.
Theory Of Automata, Formal Languages And Computation (As Per Uptu Syllabus)
Author: S.P.Eugene Xavier
Publisher: New Age International
ISBN: 8122416551
Category : Computational complexity
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
This Book Is Aimed At Providing An Introduction To The Basic Models Of Computability To The Undergraduate Students. This Book Is Devoted To Finite Automata And Their Properties. Pushdown Automata Provides A Class Of Models And Enables The Analysis Of Context-Free Languages. Turing Machines Have Been Introduced And The Book Discusses Computability And Decidability. A Number Of Problems With Solutions Have Been Provided For Each Chapter. A Lot Of Exercises Have Been Given With Hints/Answers To Most Of These Tutorial Problems.
Publisher: New Age International
ISBN: 8122416551
Category : Computational complexity
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
This Book Is Aimed At Providing An Introduction To The Basic Models Of Computability To The Undergraduate Students. This Book Is Devoted To Finite Automata And Their Properties. Pushdown Automata Provides A Class Of Models And Enables The Analysis Of Context-Free Languages. Turing Machines Have Been Introduced And The Book Discusses Computability And Decidability. A Number Of Problems With Solutions Have Been Provided For Each Chapter. A Lot Of Exercises Have Been Given With Hints/Answers To Most Of These Tutorial Problems.
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
Author: John E. Hopcroft
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781292039053
Category : Computational complexity
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This classic book on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity has been updated to present theoretical concepts in a concise and straightforward manner with the increase of hands-on, practical applications. This new edition comes with Gradiance, an online assessment tool developed for computer science. Please note, Gradiance is no longer available with this book, as we no longer support this product.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781292039053
Category : Computational complexity
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This classic book on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity has been updated to present theoretical concepts in a concise and straightforward manner with the increase of hands-on, practical applications. This new edition comes with Gradiance, an online assessment tool developed for computer science. Please note, Gradiance is no longer available with this book, as we no longer support this product.
The Old and the New Magic
Author: Henry Ridgely Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Cellular Automata
Author: Howard Gutowitz
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262570862
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The thirty four contributions in this book cover many aspects of contemporary studies on cellular automata and include reviews, research reports, and guides to recent literature and available software. Cellular automata, dynamic systems in which space and time are discrete, are yielding interesting applications in both the physical and natural sciences. The thirty four contributions in this book cover many aspects of contemporary studies on cellular automata and include reviews, research reports, and guides to recent literature and available software. Chapters cover mathematical analysis, the structure of the space of cellular automata, learning rules with specified properties: cellular automata in biology, physics, chemistry, and computation theory; and generalizations of cellular automata in neural nets, Boolean nets, and coupled map lattices.Current work on cellular automata may be viewed as revolving around two central and closely related problems: the forward problem and the inverse problem. The forward problem concerns the description of properties of given cellular automata. Properties considered include reversibility, invariants, criticality, fractal dimension, and computational power. The role of cellular automata in computation theory is seen as a particularly exciting venue for exploring parallel computers as theoretical and practical tools in mathematical physics. The inverse problem, an area of study gaining prominence particularly in the natural sciences, involves designing rules that possess specified properties or perform specified task. A long-term goal is to develop a set of techniques that can find a rule or set of rules that can reproduce quantitative observations of a physical system. Studies of the inverse problem take up the organization and structure of the set of automata, in particular the parameterization of the space of cellular automata. Optimization and learning techniques, like the genetic algorithm and adaptive stochastic cellular automata are applied to find cellular automaton rules that model such physical phenomena as crystal growth or perform such adaptive-learning tasks as balancing an inverted pole.Howard Gutowitz is Collaborateur in the Service de Physique du Solide et RĂ©sonance Magnetique, Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique, Saclay, France.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262570862
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The thirty four contributions in this book cover many aspects of contemporary studies on cellular automata and include reviews, research reports, and guides to recent literature and available software. Cellular automata, dynamic systems in which space and time are discrete, are yielding interesting applications in both the physical and natural sciences. The thirty four contributions in this book cover many aspects of contemporary studies on cellular automata and include reviews, research reports, and guides to recent literature and available software. Chapters cover mathematical analysis, the structure of the space of cellular automata, learning rules with specified properties: cellular automata in biology, physics, chemistry, and computation theory; and generalizations of cellular automata in neural nets, Boolean nets, and coupled map lattices.Current work on cellular automata may be viewed as revolving around two central and closely related problems: the forward problem and the inverse problem. The forward problem concerns the description of properties of given cellular automata. Properties considered include reversibility, invariants, criticality, fractal dimension, and computational power. The role of cellular automata in computation theory is seen as a particularly exciting venue for exploring parallel computers as theoretical and practical tools in mathematical physics. The inverse problem, an area of study gaining prominence particularly in the natural sciences, involves designing rules that possess specified properties or perform specified task. A long-term goal is to develop a set of techniques that can find a rule or set of rules that can reproduce quantitative observations of a physical system. Studies of the inverse problem take up the organization and structure of the set of automata, in particular the parameterization of the space of cellular automata. Optimization and learning techniques, like the genetic algorithm and adaptive stochastic cellular automata are applied to find cellular automaton rules that model such physical phenomena as crystal growth or perform such adaptive-learning tasks as balancing an inverted pole.Howard Gutowitz is Collaborateur in the Service de Physique du Solide et RĂ©sonance Magnetique, Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique, Saclay, France.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 1407166573
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 1407166573
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!