Codd's cellular automaton

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Codd's cellular automaton is a cellular automaton (CA) devised by the British computer scientist Edgar F. Codd in 1968.

Description

It was designed to recreate the computation- and construction-universality of von Neumann's CA but with fewer states: 8 instead of 29.

Codd showed that it was possible to make a self-reproducing machine in his CA, in a similar way to von Neumann's universal constructor, but never gave a complete implementation.

See also

Exernal links

  • [ Codd's cellular automaton] @ Wikipedia