Cellular Automaton

A cellular automaton is a discrete model of computation studied in automata theory.

It has found application in various areas, including physics, biology and microstructure modelling.

History and Popular Applications

• First discovered by Stainslaw Ulam and John von Neumann at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Conway's Game of Life popularized it
• Stephen Wolfram's Wolfram Physics
• Simulation of physical processes on the Connection Machine, Richard Feynman, Stephen Wolfram, etc. (Feynman's Theory of Cellular Automata)