Across the Atlantic, John von Neumann also developed computing machines to
help the Allied war effort. His biography can be found at
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html. Play with von Neumann’s
self-reproducing automata at
http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/software/jvn.html.
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