That’s why the machines were central to Turing’s paper. To show there were algorithms that Turing machines would run indefinitely and inconclusively was a way of showing Hilbert was mistaken.

Turing’s great insight was to provide a concrete answer to the computation question in the form of an abstract machine, later named the Turing machine by his doctoral adviser, Alonzo Church. It’s ...

For several years, [Jim] has wanted to construct a fully-mechanical universal Turing machine. Without the help of any electronic circuits or electrical input, his goal was to build the machine usin… ...

Britain’s Alan Turing published a paper entitled “On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem” on November 12, 1937, that would form the basic theory of computability for ...

The computer is what’s known as a universal Turing machine, a theoretical construct invented by mathematician Alan Turing that’s capable of simulating any computer algorithm.

The new method was inspired by the famous Turing test, which was first proposed by Alan Turing, in 1950. It’s creators have called it “Turing learning." ...