Alan Turing
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Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical comput
Turing in 1951
English Heritage blue plaque in Maida Vale, London, marking Turing's birthplace in 1912
Turing at age 16, c. 1928 – c. 1929
Turing (seated second from left) in Cornwall, with fellow Shirburnians: Edwin Davis, John Bennett, Peter White, Peter Hogg (seated second from right), and Duncan Carse, in April 1930.
Turing machine
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A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity, it is
Alan Turing
…highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. Born in…
A physical Turing machine model constructed by Mike Davey. A true Turing machine would need to be provided more memory (tape) if and when required; physical models can only have a finite amount.
The evolution of the busy beaver's computation starts at the top and proceeds to the bottom.
An implementation of a Turing machine
A Turing machine realization using Lego pieces