Cam-6
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The CAM-6 accelerator is a PC-compatible expansion board designed to simulate cellular automata
. It was designed by Tommaso Toffoli
and Norman Margolus
and is described at length in "Cellular Automata Machines", by Toffoli and Margolus (MIT Press, 1987).
Cellular automaton
A cellular automaton is a discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling. It consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, such as "On" and "Off"...
. It was designed by Tommaso Toffoli
Tommaso Toffoli
Tommaso Toffoli is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University. He joined the faculty in 1995. He was born in June, 1943 in Montereale Valcellina, in northeastern Italy, and was raised in Rome. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Rome La...
and Norman Margolus
Norman Margolus
Norman H. Margolus is an Canadian-American physicist and computer scientist, known for his work on cellular automata and reversible computing...
and is described at length in "Cellular Automata Machines", by Toffoli and Margolus (MIT Press, 1987).