Author:Arthur Burks
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| Arthur Walter Burks (born October 13, 1915 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American mathematician who in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Burks also edited volumes VII-VIII of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, published 1958. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice outlined their case for the subject matter of the ENIAC having been derived from John Vincent Atanasoff. |
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- with Herman H. Goldstine and John von Neumann (1946), Preliminary discussion of the logical design of an electronic computing instrument, 42 pages, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, June 1946, 2nd edition 1947. Eprint.
- with Irving M. Copi, Lewis Carroll's barber shop paradox (1950)
- with Jesse Bowdle Wright, Theory of Logical Nets (1952)
- with Irving M. Copi, The logical design of an idealized general-purpose computer (1954)
- The logic of fixed and growing automata (1956)
- with Hao Wang, The logic of automata (1956)
- ed., with author Charles Sanders Peirce, the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Volumes 7 and 8, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, also Belnap Press (of Harvard University Press) edition, vols. 7-8 bound together, 798 pages (ISBN 0-674-13803-1), released in InteLex CD-ROM, reprinted in 1998 Thoemmes Continuum. (1958)
- with Hao Wang and John Henry Holland, Application of logic to the design of computing machines: Final report (1959)
- John Von Neumann and Arthur W. Burks, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, by John Von Neumann, edited & completed by Arthur W. Burks (1966)
- Essays on Cellular Automata (ISBN 978-0252000232, ISBN 0252000234). (1971)
- Review of The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce, Carolyn Eisele, ed., in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 84, no. 5, September 1978, Project Euclid Eprint PDF 791KB. (1978)
- Chance, Cause and Reason: An Inquiry into the Nature of Scientific Evidence hardcover (ISBN 978-0226080871, ISBN 0226080870), paperback (ISBN 978-0226080888, ISBN 0226080889) (1978)
- Robots and free minds (1986)
- Alice R. Burks and Arthur W. Burks, The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story, hardcover (ISBN 978-0472100903, ISBN 0472100904), paperback ( ISBN 978-0472081042, ISBN 0472081047). (1988)
