John von Neumann and the
Evolutionary Growth of Complexity:
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards...

Barry McMullin
http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~mcmullin/

© 2000The MIT Press

The final version of this article has been published in Artificial Life, Vol. 6, Issue 4, Fall 2000, pp. 347-361.
Artificial Life is published by The MIT Press.

Dublin City University
Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering
Artificial Life Laboratory

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