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Theory of self-reproducing automata von Neumann J.
Publisher: UMl Reprint University Illinois 1966 Ed

I'm guessing that anyone reading this is already familiar with the idea of programs that output themselves. In the mind of John von Neuman, a Hungarian-American mathematician who lectured about “Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata,” which was later published as the “Theory of self-reproducing automata. In his essay von Neumann described how a computer program could be designed to reproduce itself. The General Theory of Self-Reproducing Programs. If you're not there's a great list of such programs here. Early viruses only put von Neumann's theory of self-reproducing automata into application. In the late 1940′s von Neumann studied from a theoretical point of view the problem of self-reproducing automata (see “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata”, 1966, University of Illinois Press, Urbana). The work of von Neumann was later published as the “Theory of self-reproducing automata”. In the same way, viral polymorphism did not appear “ex nihilo”. Dick, published in 1955, which actually seems to precede John von Neumann's original paper about self-reproducing machines: von Neumann, J., 1966, The Theory of Self-reproducing Automata].