His Turing machine was a thought-experiment computing device in which a program performs operations upon symbols printed on an infinite strip of tape, and can in theory calculate anything that any ...

That is, a machine that reads an arbitrary Turing machine description from a tape and simulates it. You can argue that such a machine forms the basis for the modern stored-program computer.

As Ian Bogost wrote last year on this website, the same concept drives Turing’s other great contribution to computer science—the universal computing machine.

But as they create programming languages for these machines, Dr. Svore and her colleagues are still drawing on the work of the latest Turing winners. “We are building on the same techniques ...

Scientists have created the first “chemical Turing machine,” meaning a liquid that can do the calculations that define a classic computer science standard.

Technology Computer with human-like learning will program itself The Neural Turing Machine will combine the best of number-crunching with the human-like adaptability of neural networks – so it ...