Complex Systems Volume 1, Issue 1 (1987) paired the NETtalk paper with Albert & Culik's 'A Simple Universal Cellular Automaton' — connectionism and cellular automata in the same debut issue

The first issue of Stephen Wolfram's journal Complex Systems (claim-wolfram-founded-complex-systems-journal-after-declining-sfi) — Volume 1, Issue 1, 1987 — is best known in machine-learning history for carrying the NETtalk paper (claim-nettalk-1987-complex-systems-distinct-from-1986-report). That same issue's opening article was "A Simple Universal Cellular Automaton and its One-Way and Totalistic Version" by Jürgen Albert and Karel Culik II, confirmed on the publisher's own abstract page for the issue.

The pairing is thematically apt for a journal named Complex Systems: its debut issue set a landmark connectionist demonstration (a neural network learning to pronounce English text) alongside a cellular-automaton construction — the two computational paradigms Wolfram's "complex systems" program was built to study side by side. It is a bibliographic fact rather than a claim about influence: there is no evidence the two papers spoke to each other, only that they shared a cover.

The second author, Karel Culik II, is the thread the capturing session followed onward: his later research turned to representing images as weighted finite automata for compression, a cousin of the fractal (iterated-function-system) image compression whose "an image as a compact function" premise later rhymes with 2020 implicit neural representations (claim-fractal-compression-to-implicit-neural-representations-bridge).