Papers:
  • Adleman 98 (Sci. Amer.)
  •    94 (Science)
  • De Forest 08:
  • Audion patent, see Patent No. 879532
  • Feynman 59
  • Feynman 82
  • Fredkin and Toffoli 82
  • Keyes 88
  • Moore 65
  • Poe 1836
  • Thomson 1897
  • Weiss et al. 03
  • Yurke et al. 99
  • D. P. DiVincenzo 01
  • Books (* = on reserve):
  • *R. P. Feynman, Feynman Lectures on Computation, (A. J. G. Hey and R. W. Allen, eds.), Perseus Books, Reading MA, 1996. Fine Library: QA76.F451996b
  • *H. S. Leff and A. F. Rex (eds.), Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1990. Fine Library: QC318.M35 M38 1990
  • *H. Meinhardt, The algorithmic beauty of sea shells, with contributions and images by P. Prusinkiewicz and D. R. Fowler, 3rd ed., Springer, Berlin, 2003. Biology Library: QL403.M49 2003
  • *M. A. Nielsen and I. Chuang, Quantum computation and quantum information, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 2000. Chemistry and Firestone Libraries: QA76.889 .N54 2000
  • *C. Schaffer, Principles of Computer Science, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988. Engineering Library: QA76 .S345 1988
  • *S. Wolfram (ed.), Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata, World Scientific Publishing Co., Hong Kong (distributed by Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia), 1986. Engineering and Plasma Physics Libraries: QA267.5.C45 T48 1986
  • Web Sites:
  • Centre for Quantum Computation, University of Oxford; an especially good source of introductions and tutorials.


  • Doug Coward's Analog Computer Museum


  • News of Wilbur's linear equation solving machine


  • Miscellaneous Cellular Automata Links (not yet edited or formatted):

    Simulators:
    
    http://www.jweimar.de/jcasim/                    
     bombs?
    
    http://www.mirwoj.opus.chelm.pl/ 
     Mirek's homepage source available, lots of static pictures
    
    http://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/ 
     mostly 2-d, Rudy Rucker and John Walker --> appears useful
    
    Resources:
    http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life/Cellular_Automata/
    
    http://cell-auto.com/links/index.php 
     huge resource page
    
    http://www.fractalus.com/steve/ca/gol.html 
     java applet for Life
    
    http://www.fractalus.com/ fractal art
    
    http://cafaq.com/apps/index.php?open=shells 
     FAQ
    
    http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~fspm_gk/Veranstaltungen/Workshops/Abstracts/patternformation1.html 
     workshop: biological pattern formation and CA
    
    http://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/dept4/meinhardt/home.html 
     Meinhardt
    
    http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~aminai/courses_0405.html 
     matlab?
    
    http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fowler92modeling.html 
     modeling seashells -- lots of great pictures, not explicitly CA
    
    http://users.frii.com/davejen/cellauto.html nice picture
    
    Shells:
    
    http://perso.wanadoo.fr/zonatus/Textiles.htm Conus textile
    
    Downloaded, used:
    
    http://www.fractalus.com/steve/ca/steveca.html 
     has 1-d GUI, etc. --> downloaded SteveCA 1/11/05
    
    Used:
    http://staff.vbi.vt.edu/dana/ca/cellular.shtml   
     lots of examples! use forest fire, Life