Theory of self-reproducing automata von Neumann J.
Publisher: UMl Reprint University Illinois 1966 Ed

& Completed by Arthur Burks) 1966. €The Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata”. The basic theory that underpins most types of PC virus was outlined in John von Nueman's scienfic paper published back in 1966. Von Neumann, who made seminal contributions to digital computing, left a number of distinct monuments to his abbreviated career: among them his "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" (with Oskar Morgenstern) and his "Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata" (with Arthur Burks). In his essay von Neumann described how a computer program could be designed to reproduce itself. Synthesis between these two regimes is now advancing so quickly that no unified theory of the economics of self-reproducing systems has been able to keep up. 2) "Theory and Organisation of Complicated Automata" 5 lectures delivered at University of Illinois in Dec 1949, published in Part 1 of Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata (Ed. The work of von Neumann was later published as the “Theory of self-reproducing automata”. Theory of self-reproducing automata. Edited and completed by Arthur W.