[ExI] Computronium

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Wed Feb 18 21:04:09 UTC 2009


At 08:55 PM 2/18/2009 +0000, BillK wrote:

>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: 263­272

a term reinvented/repurposed by Wil McCarthy for something very different. 




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