readings
- Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata John Von Neumann, Arthur W. Burks (Ed.); University of Illinois Press, 1966
- Self-reproduction in cellular automata Christopher G. Langton; Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena; Volume 10, Issues 1-2, January 1984, Pages 135-144
- Toward a viable, self-reproducing universal computer Jean-Yves Perrier, Moshe Sipper, Jacques Zahnd; Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena; Volume 97, Issue 4, 15 October 1996, Pages 335-352
- Fifty Years of Research on Self-Replication: An Overview Moshe Sipper; Artificial Life; Summer 1998, Vol. 4, No. 3, Pages 237-257
- The Quine Page
- Mechanics of Self-Reproduction L.S. Penrose; Annals of Human Genetics; Volume 23, Issue 1, pages 59-72, September 1958
- Robotics: Self-reproducing machines Victor Zykov, Efstathios Mytilinaios, Bryant Adams & Hod Lipson; Nature; 435, 163-164 (12 May 2005)
- Robotics: Self-replication from random parts Saul Griffith, Dan Goldwater & Joseph M. Jacobson; Nature; 437, 636 (29 September 2005)
- RepRap - the replicating rapid prototyper Rhys Jones, Patrick Haufe, Edward Sells, Pejman Iravani, Vik Olliver, Chris Palmer and Adrian Bowyer; Robotica; Volume 29 / Special Issue 01 / January 2011, pp 177-191
- Minimal self-replicating systems Andrew Robertson, Andrew J. Sinclair and Douglas Philp; Chem. Soc. Rev.; 2000, 29, 141-152
- Minimal self-replicating systems Natasha Paul, Gerald F Joyce; Current Opinion in Chemical Biology; Volume 8, Issue 6, December 2004, Pages 634-639
- Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome Daniel G. Gibson et al.; Science; Vol. 329, no. 5987, pp. 52-56, 2010
assignment
• Model the operation of a self-reproducing machine