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This work is divided into two parts. Part I contains sixteen critical es says by prominent philosophers and computer scientists. Their papers offer insightful, well-argued contemporary views of a broad range of topics that lie at the heart of philosophy in the second half of the twen tieth century: semantics and ontology, induction, the nature of prob ability, the foundations of science, scientific objectivity, the theory of naming, the logic of conditionals, simulation modeling, the relatiOn be tween minds and machines, and the nature of rules that guide be havior. In this volume honoring Arthur W. Burks, the philosophical breadth of his work is thus manifested in the diverse aspects of tha...
Tells of the design, construction, and subsequent controversy over the first special-purpose electronic computer
This final report has two parts. In the first part, the results obtained on fixed automata are summarized. The detailed accound of these results can be found in the technical report, The Logic of Automata, (AFOSR TN 56-539, ASTIA AD 110-358) by Arthur W. Burks and Hao Wang. Results obtained on growing automata are summarized in the second part.