Strange Aeons
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Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.
He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.
TwitterHomebrew Turing Machine
Saw this today, it is not quite the Manchester Baby, but the fundamental ideas are the same. Mike Davey created this homebrewed implementation of a Turing Machine (via IEEE Spectrum Article "DIY Turing Machine"):
Final Coursework
The requirements for coursework 5 have been posted. The core requirements for this project are more straightforward than the Manchester Baby simulator but there is scope for some very interesting extensions.
Java Manchester Baby Simulator
Manchester Baby Screencast
To match the Game of Life screencast we also have a really nice example of a Manchester Baby simulator running a nice example program:
Manchester Baby Films
Two youtube films that I found which feature the Manchester Baby. The first is vintage footage from the BBC, reporting on the birth of the baby, which was unearthed for the fiftieth celebrations of the Baby and accompanied this article. This footage was helpfully reposted to youtube as well:
Additionally I found this footage of two of the inventors of the Baby, Tom Kilburn, who wrote the first ever program to run on the baby which was used to test the hardware, and Geoff Tootill:
