Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Finite Automata -- Representation of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata / Kleene, S. C. -- Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms From Unreliable Components / Neumann, J. von -- Some Uneconomical Robots / Culbertson, James T. -- Some Universal Elements for Finite Automata / Minsky, M. L. -- Gedanken-Experiments on Sequential Machines / Moore, Edward F. -- Turing Machines -- A Universal Turing Machine with Two Internal States / Shannon, Claude E. -- A Note on Universal Turing Machines / Davis, M. D. -- The Inversion of Functions Defined by Turing Machines / McCarthy, John -- Computability by Probabilistic Machines / Leeuw, K. de / Moore, E. F. / Shannon, C. E. / Shapiro, N. -- Synthesis of Automata -- Design for an Intelligence-Amplifier / Ashby, W. Ross -- The Epistemological Problem for Automata / MacKay, D. M. -- Conditional Probability Machines and Conditioned Reflexes / Uttley, Albert M. -- Temporal and Spatial Patterns in a Conditional Probability Machine / Uttley, Albert M. |