[ExI] Computronium life on Rudy Rucker's blog
BillK
pharos at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 20:55:26 UTC 2009
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Yeah, I should have noticed Amato, but google is untrustworthy with stuff
> like this. Eugen introduced it to exi.
>
Google untrustworthy!!! Wash yo' mouth out!!!
(But, yes, Google manipulates search results a lot more than people appreciate).
Further research indicates that Margolus is credited with the
'concept' of computronium.
But he called it programmable matter.
Toffoli, Tommaso; Margolus, Norman (1991), "Programmable matter:
concepts and realization", Physica D 47: 263–272
BillK
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