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There is a long history of Prizes being offered in an attempt to galvanize particular technological advances.
In 1714 the British government offered The Longitude Prize for advances towards a...
John von Neumann was a Hungarian mathematician born in 1903.
In 1966 his book on the Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata was published (posthumously).
In this book he wrote about machines that...
You can't have a prize without something to give as the prize itself. Nowadays, that more or less means money.
But how much?
It needs to be enough to catch the eye of the media, get publicity and...
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If the prize criteria are stated in terms of a percentage, what would be a good percentage to use?
Obvious steps would be: 50%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 99% (1/2, 1/5, 1/10, 1/20, 1/100)
What is attainable?...
Robots and rapid prototype fabricators are currently expensive machines to buy or time consuming things to build (even if you have the expertise). If you have to ship a new one to a far location,...
It is good to have a single main objective, that catches the imagination, and that it is clear whether someone has won or not.
However, it is worth also handing out smaller sums on a discretionary...
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Welcome to Constructors. This Wiki is linked to the google email discussion list: [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/vncprize]
It was spawned from a proposal to offer a prize for progress towards...
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I live in Cambridge, UK. I originally studied physics and philosophy as part...
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About Universal Constructors
Self-Replicating Systems
Self-Assembling Systems
A non-biological macro-size system that can gather raw resources from the wild,...
Why Constructors? What good are they, why is progress in this area worth encouraging, would a prize actually make a difference?
One of the requirements of making a submission for the prize is that...
How to go from the initial idea to a funded and well regarded prize that is then competed for and eventually won?
Here is what's happened so far, and one path by which it could progress onwards
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A Self-Assembling system is often taken to mean one which, given the parts spread randomly, will draw together in the correct order, like water drawing into a bead via capillary action or a growing...
For the purposes of this wiki, we define a Self-Replicating machine as one which can manufacture its own components.
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