computer science, a universal Turing machine (UTM) is a Turing machine capable of computing any computable sequence, as described by Alan Turing in his seminal...
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calculus. A Turing machine that is able to simulate any other Turing machine is called a universal Turing machine (UTM, or simply a universal machine). Another...
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simulate a Turing machine, it is Turing equivalent to a Turing machine. A universal Turing machine can be used to simulate any Turing machine and by extension...
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A quantum Turing machine (QTM) or universal quantum computer is an abstract machine used to model the effects of a quantum computer. It provides a simple...
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probabilities for the transitions, probabilistic Turing machines can be defined as deterministic Turing machines having an additional "write" instruction where...
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In theoretical computer science, a nondeterministic Turing machine (NTM) is a theoretical model of computation whose governing rules specify more than...
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relationship between partial Turing machines and total Turing machines: Can every partial function computable by a partial Turing machine be extended (that is...
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described a universal 2-state 5-symbol Turing machine, and conjectured that a particular 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine (hereinafter (2,3) Turing machine) might...
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branch instruction. Nevertheless, the Z3 was Turing-complete – how to implement a universal Turing machine on the Z3 was shown in 1998 by Raúl Rojas. He...
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computational complexity theory, an alternating Turing machine (ATM) is a non-deterministic Turing machine (NTM) with a rule for accepting computations that...
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"library" can be printed. Turing machine Universal Turing machine Alternating Turing machine Probabilistic Turing machine Turing machine equivalents Sipser,...
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"Post–Turing program" and "Post–Turing machine" were used by Martin Davis in 1973–1974 (Davis 1973, p. 69ff). Later in 1980, Davis used the name "Turing–Post...
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A Turing machine is a hypothetical computing device, first conceived by Alan Turing in 1936. Turing machines manipulate symbols on a potentially infinite...
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Turing machine Symmetric Turing machine Unambiguous Turing machine Universal Turing machine Wolfram's 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine Turing Machine (band)...
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Zeno machines (abbreviated ZM, and also called accelerated Turing machine, ATM) are a hypothetical computational model related to Turing machines that...
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computability theory, the Church–Turing thesis (also known as computability thesis, the Turing–Church thesis, the Church–Turing conjecture, Church's thesis...
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Turing equivalence may refer to: As related to Turing completeness, Turing equivalence means having computational power equivalent to a universal Turing...
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A Turing machine is an abstract mathematical computational device named after Alan Turing; see the box for variants of this meaning. Turing machine may...
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A neural Turing machine (NTM) is a recurrent neural network model of a Turing machine. The approach was published by Alex Graves et al. in 2014. NTMs combine...
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to supplement the article Turing machine. The following table is Turing's very first example (Turing 1937): "1. A machine can be constructed to compute...
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Hypercomputation (redirect from Infinite-time Turing machine)
super-Turing computation is a set of hypothetical models of computation that can provide outputs that are not Turing-computable. For example, a machine that...
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Kolmogorov complexity (section Universal probability)
encoding for Turing machines, where an encoding is a function which associates to each Turing Machine M a bitstring <M>. If M is a Turing Machine which, on...
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Computer program (section Universal Turing machine)
1936, Alan Turing introduced the Universal Turing machine, a theoretical device that can model every computation. It is a finite-state machine that has...
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a register machine is a generic class of abstract machines, analogous to a Turing machine and thus Turing complete. Unlike a Turing machine that uses a...
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machine (the so-called Harvard architecture). The RA-machine's equivalent of the universal Turing machine – with its program in the registers as well as its...
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distribution over programs (that is, inputs to a universal Turing machine). The prior is universal in the Turing-computability sense, i.e. no string has zero...
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Halting problem (redirect from Lossy Turing machine)
Turing machine starting from a given state ever print a given symbol?") and to the printing problem considered in Turing's 1936 paper ("does a Turing...
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an elder brother, John Ferrier Turing, father of Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet of the Turing baronets. Turing's father's civil service commission...
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UTM theorem (redirect from Universal turing machine theorem)
In computability theory, the UTM theorem, or universal Turing machine theorem, is a basic result about Gödel numberings of the set of computable functions...
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The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1949, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent...
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