THE WOLFRAM MACHINE

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 3863-3917 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIGI FORTUNA ◽  
MATTIA FRASCA ◽  
ANGELO SARRA FIORE ◽  
LEON O. CHUA

A new stand-alone complex system hardware emulator, called the Wolfram Machine, is introduced in this paper. The system is a programmable hardware cellular automaton able to emulate and show the outcome of all elementary cellular automata, allowing for their experimental analysis. The system consists of an LED matrix and a board equipped with a microcontroller. This simple low-cost system can be programmed to reproduce the complex behavior of Wolfram's cellular automata, ranging from periodic patterns to Turing machines and Isles of Eden. A complete gallery of experiments is included.

Author(s):  
Eleonora Bilotta ◽  
Pietro Pantano

There have been many attempts to understand complexity and to represent it in terms of computable quantities. To date, however, these attempts have had little success. Although we find complexity in a broad range of scientific domains, precise definitions escape our grasp (Bak, 1996; Morin, 2001; Prigogine & Stengers, 1984). One of the key models in complexity science is the Cellular Automaton (CA), a class of system in which small changes in the initial conditions or in local rules can provoke unpredictable behavior (Wolfram, 1984; Wolfram, 2002; Langton, 1986; 1990). The key issue, here as in other kinds of complex system, is to discover the rules governing the emergence of complex phenomena. If such rules were known we could use them to model and predict the behavior of complex physical and biological systems. Taking it for granted that complex behavior is the result of interactions among multiple components of a larger system; we can ask a number of fundamental questions.


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