Ubiquity, an ACM publication
February, ʹͲͳͳ
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Ubiquity Symposium
What is Computation?
Biological Computation
by Melanie Mitchell
Computer Science Department, Portland State University
and
Santa Fe Institute
Editor’s Introduction
In this thirteenth piece to the Ubiquity symposium discussing ‘What is computation? ’ Melanie Mitchell
discusses the idea that biological computation is a process that occurs in nature, not merely in computer
simulations of nature.
Peter J. Denning
Editor