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VON NEUMANN, John. Can we survive technology? Offprint from Fortune (June 1955). N.p, n.d. Original blue printed wrappers. OOC 962. -- VON NEUMANN. "The general and logical theory of automata." In Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior: The Hixon Symposium, ed. Lloyd A. Jeffress (New York: John Wiley & Sons; London: Chapman & Hall, 1951), pp. 1-31. Original red cloth, printed dust-jacket. Von Neumann became interested in automata theory in the 1940s, after reading Turing's and Post's papers on universal computing machines and McCulloch and Pitts's paper proposing a mathematical model of the human nervous system. To von Neumann an automaton was an information processor. He regarded both neurons and electronic switching elements, such as vacuum tubes, as the individual elements of automata, and defined automata theory as the study of how these elements are organized into a whole and how the functioning of the whole is expressed in terms of its elements. OCC 965 -- [VON NEUMANN.] "John von Neumann 1903-1957." In Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 64, no. 3, part 2 (May 1958). Whole number. Original blue printed wrappers. OOC 967. -- VON NEUMANN. Collected works. Edited by A. B. TAUB. 6 vols. New York: Pergamon Press, 1961-63. Original blue leatherette. OOC 969. -- VON NEUMANN. Theory of self-reproducing automata. Edited and completed by Arthur W. Burks. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1966. Original green cloth. OCC 971 -- VON NEUMANN. The computer and the brain. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1958. Original gray cloth, pictorical dust-jacket. OOC 972.
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VON NEUMANN, John. Can we survive technology? Offprint from Fortune (June 1955). N.p, n.d. Original blue printed wrappers. OOC 962. -- VON NEUMANN. "The general and logical theory of automata." In Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior: The Hixon Symposium, ed. Lloyd A. Jeffress (New York: John Wiley & Sons; London: Chapman & Hall, 1951), pp. 1-31. Original red cloth, printed dust-jacket. Von Neumann became interested in automata theory in the 1940s, after reading Turing's and Post's papers on universal computing machines and McCulloch and Pitts's paper proposing a mathematical model of the human nervous system. To von Neumann an automaton was an information processor. He regarded both neurons and electronic switching elements, such as vacuum tubes, as the individual elements of automata, and defined automata theory as the study of how these elements are organized into a whole and how the functioning of the whole is expressed in terms of its elements. OCC 965 -- [VON NEUMANN.] "John von Neumann 1903-1957." In Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 64, no. 3, part 2 (May 1958). Whole number. Original blue printed wrappers. OOC 967. -- VON NEUMANN. Collected works. Edited by A. B. TAUB. 6 vols. New York: Pergamon Press, 1961-63. Original blue leatherette. OOC 969. -- VON NEUMANN. Theory of self-reproducing automata. Edited and completed by Arthur W. Burks. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1966. Original green cloth. OCC 971 -- VON NEUMANN. The computer and the brain. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1958. Original gray cloth, pictorical dust-jacket. OOC 972.
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