What is computation?

SG Akl - International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
process in order for it to be called a computation, namely, there must exist a finite length
algorithm for the process, … and sufficient for the process to be computable by a universal model of …

[PDF][PDF] What is computation

PJ Denning - Ubiquity, 2010 - kumlander.eu
… We need to respond to friends and colleagues in other fields who are discovering new
natural computational processes. They look to us for insights in how the processes work, what …

Information processing, computation, and cognition

G Piccinini, A Scarantino - Journal of biological physics, 2011 - Springer
… -neutral account of computation and information processing. We also apply our … computation
and information processing on one hand and classicism, connectionism, and computational

What is a computation?

M Davis - Mathematics Today Twelve Informal Essays, 1978 - Springer
… It is easy to convince oneself that the use of a two-dimensional sheet of paper plays no
essential role in the computational process and that we really are not giving up any …

What is computation?

BJ Copeland - Synthese, 1996 - Springer
… We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a machine which
is only capable of a finite number of conditions ql, q2, ..., qk which will be called "mconfigurations"…

[BOOK][B] Biophysics of computation: information processing in single neurons

C Koch - 2004 - books.google.com
… In the process of doing so, this monograph covers experiments and models of computations
from a … In electronic circuit design, work on the physics of computation has characterized the …

[BOOK][B] Computation

ML Minsky - 1967 - cba.mit.edu
… system (and hence must represent the steps on the computation of the still-further underlying
Turing-machine computation). If the process terminates, then the last G that was used will …

Computation vs. information processing: why their difference matters to cognitive science

G Piccinini, A Scarantino - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
computation and information processing. Is this one claim or two? Is computation the same
as information processing… distinguish information processing from computation and examine …

Computation and computational thinking

AV Aho - The computer journal, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
computation refers to a process that is defined in terms of some underlying model of
computation… We consider computational thinking to be the thought processes involved in …

State-dependent computations: spatiotemporal processing in cortical networks

DV Buonomano, W Maass - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2009 - nature.com
… and process spatial … computational framework for processing spatiotemporal stimuli remains
elusive. Recent theoretical and experimental work suggests that spatiotemporal processing