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In 1952, a paper appeared in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology titled “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.” The paper’s aim was to provide an analysis of how the genes of a zygote realize the...
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I didn’t realize [Turing] was as important as he was. — Claude Shannon1 In late 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, John von Neumann began assembling a small group of engineers at the...
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