automata

For a while, I thought I might find a way to represent an evolutionary process in automata-theoretic terms.

Berlinski stirring the pot 2010

An automata is a self-moving machine, and so is a computer.

Boing Boing: June 9, 2002 - June 15, 2002 Archives 2002

Great whitepaper explaining the visceral reaction we have to certain automata and movie monsters.

Boing Boing: October 20, 2002 - October 26, 2002 Archives 2002

Father of The Robots Born Today imageJacques de Vaucanson Feb. 24, 1709 - Nov. 21, 1782 was the French inventor of 'automata' - robot devices of later significance for modern industry.

Archive 2009-02-01 Staq Mavlen 2009

Father of The Robots Born Today imageJacques de Vaucanson Feb. 24, 1709 - Nov. 21, 1782 was the French inventor of 'automata' - robot devices of later significance for modern industry.

Father of The Robots Born Today Staq Mavlen 2009

… I discovered that Méliès had a collection of mechanical, wind-up figures called automata that were donated to a museum, but which were later destroyed and thrown away.

Brian Selznick « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2007

Father of 'Automata' Born This Day imageJacques de Vaucanson Feb. 24, 1709 - Nov. 21, 1782 was the French inventor of 'automata' - robot devices of later significance for modern industry.

Archive 2007-02-01 Staq Mavlen 2007

Father of 'Automata' Born This Day imageJacques de Vaucanson Feb. 24, 1709 - Nov. 21, 1782 was the French inventor of 'automata' - robot devices of later significance for modern industry.

Father of 'Automata' Born This Day Staq Mavlen 2007

Albin is a City University of New York economist who has built the ideas underlying Life—called automata theory—into a mathematics capable of dealing with the trickiest dimension in economics, that of complexity.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

Thank goodness for racehorses, fascinating clockwork driven costumed "automata" figures, an antique "wheel of fortune," Ms. Pacman and a pinball machine I designed for him with the names, locations and voices from the many television shows he produced.

Candy Spelling: Missing My Husband on Father's Day 2008