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Modern Analog Field Computing

Table of Contents

• How to Use This Book
• History of Field Computing
• Theory
  • Computability
    • Turing-Completeness
    • Strong Church-Turing Hypothesis
    • Super-Turing Computation versus the Physics of Computing
    • Need for Weaker Results
      • Analog Chomsky Hierarchy
      • Calculi and Simulacra
      • The GPAC Is Not Turing-Complete
  • Complexity
    • Complexity of Analog Computation
    • Analysis of Field Computers
    • Thermodynamics and NP-Completeness
• Design
  • Visual Design
  • Simulation
• Implementation
  • VLSI
  • Other
• Applications
  • Cyclotron Control
  • Matrix Preconditioning
  • Morphogenesis
  • Artificial Neural Field Networks
  • Robotics
  • Vision
  • RETIC
  • Gait Generation

Appendices

• Field Computer Simulators
  • MatLab
  • SUBSPACE
  • PISCES
  • Continuous Spatial Automaton
  • Jason's Finite-Element Mesh Generator for Spice
  • Spice
  • The Foamputer
• Other VLSI Design Tools
  • MAGIC
  • Uncle
• VLSI Field Computer CIF Files
  • Lukasiewicz Logic Arrays
  • Extended Analog Computers
  • Field Computer VLSI Toolbox