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Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936. The device, ...

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun were rewarded with the Turing Award, an honor that has become known as technology industry's version of the Nobel Prize. Since it was devised in 1950, the ...

Modern computers wouldn’t exist without the pioneering theories posited by Alan Turing, however the famed computer scientist was never quite able to make a working model of his hypothetical device.

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 using ...

This review originally ran in AP 287. Electronic-based music is heightened significantly when you leave the drum machine in the box and have a live drummer do his thing. This evident truth summarizes ...