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automata theory

Introduction
Nature and origin of modern automata
Neural nets and automata
- The finite automata of McCulloch and Pitts
- The basic logical organs
- The generalized automaton and Turing’s machine
- Input: events that affect an automaton
Probabilistic questions
- The automaton and its environment
  - Control and single-series prediction
  - Multiple-prediction theory
- Automata with unreliable components
- Automata with random elements
- Computable probability spaces
Classification of automata
- Acceptors
  - Recursively enumerable grammars and Turing acceptors
  - Finite-state grammars and finite-state acceptors
  - Context-free grammars and pushdown acceptors
  - Context-sensitive grammars and linear-bounded acceptors
- Finite transducers
  - Algebraic definition
  - Equivalence and reduction
  - Classification by semi-groups
- Post machines

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