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He was a pioneer of Automata Theory and introduced what are now know as Moore Machine s, named after him.

In a 1956 article in '' Scientific American '', he proposed "Artificial Living Plants," which would be floating factories that could create copies of themselves. They could be programmed to perform some function (extracting fresh water, harvesting minerals from seawater) for an investment that would be relatively small compared to the huge returns from the exponentially growing numbers of factories.

He died on June 14 , 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin .


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  • "Machine models of self-reproduction," ''Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics'', volume 14, pages 17-33. The American Mathematical Society, 1962.

  • "Artificial Living Plants," ''Scientific American,'' (Oct 1956):118-126

  • "Gedanken-experiments on Sequential Machines," pp 129 – 153, Automata Studies, ''Annals of Mathematical Studies'', no. 34, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1956



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