Subject: What is a computer? From: "William J. Rapaport" Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:09:17 -0500 (EST) I have newly put 2 old documents concerning the nature of computers on the website: Brunjes, Shannon (1977), "What Is a Computer?", Journal of Medical Systems 1(1): 79-85. and Anderson, David L. (2006), "The Nature of Computers", The Mind Project. The former is antiquated, but curiously interesting. The latter is a fun tutorial, with Flash animations, and is part of a large web collection of tutorials on various cognitive and computational topics. Links are at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/whatisacomputer.html#brunjes77 and http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/whatisacomputer.html#anderson06