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---++ John von Neumann and the Universal Constructor

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John von Neumann with ENIAC
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John von Neumann was one of the twentieth century's greatest intellects.  He invented the Universal Constructor - a self-copying manufacturing machine - as a theoretical concept.  The idea appeared in his book The Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, edited by A. W. Burks and published posthumously by the University of Illinois Press in 1966.

There is a good biography of von Neumann by William Poundstone called [[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038541580X/ref=ase_weisstein-20/002-3305923-8192048?v=glance&s=books][Prisoner's Dilemma]], and typing his name into a search engine will produce thousands of sites devoted to his life and work.

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