Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trove of Alan Turing's papers, including his own personal copy of his PhD dissertation, is going up for auction June 17 after ...

The solution to the difficulty of having to prove that you can implement every or any Turing machine is to notice that if a Turing machine can compute anything that is computable than there should be ...

A proof made public today illustrates that Stephen Wolfram's 2,3 Turing machine number 596440 is a universal Turing machine, and it has netted a University of Birmingham undergraduate $25,000. In 1936 ...

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The British have decided that the greatest innovation of the past century is the Universal Machine-- the philosophical concept hailed by some as the foundation of all modern IT. Mathematician, early ...

I barely passed the Introduction to the Theory of Computing course I took as a Comp Sci undergrad, so maybe I'm more impressed with this guy than is warranted, but it's still a great accomplishment.

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