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*[[Stephen Wolfram]] published ''A New Kind of Science'' (2002) which asserted that Wolfram was responsible for realizing their importance and that cellular automata would fundamentally change how science is done. However, Wolfram's book has been extensively criticized as unoriginal, overhyped and non-rigorous and reminiscent of crankery.[http://www.ams.org/notices/200302/fea-gray.pdf] [http://www.math.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_zuse_fredkin_thesis.html] [http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/][http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20030816/bob10.asp]
*[[Stephen Wolfram]] published ''A New Kind of Science'' (2002) which asserted that Wolfram was responsible for realizing their importance and that cellular automata would fundamentally change how science is done. However, Wolfram's book has been extensively criticized as unoriginal, overhyped and non-rigorous and reminiscent of crankery.[http://www.ams.org/notices/200302/fea-gray.pdf] [http://www.math.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_zuse_fredkin_thesis.html] [http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/][http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20030816/bob10.asp]
==External Links==
*[http://www.wolframscience.com/reference/notes/876b "History of Cellular Automata"] from [[Stephen Wolfram]]'s ''A New Kind of Science''
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