Church's work intertwined with Turing's to form the basis for the Church–Turing thesis. This thesis states that Turing machines, lambda calculus, and other...
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science, a universal Turing machine (UTM) is a Turing machine capable of computing any computable sequence, as described by Alan Turing in his seminal paper...
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as a never-before-published memoir by Turing's older brother John F. Turing. Turing, Sara (2012). Alan M. Turing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02058-0...
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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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cellular automaton) is said to be Turing-complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine (devised by English mathematician...
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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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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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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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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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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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Turing machine with an attached printer. The Turing machine can use that printer as an output device to print strings. Every time the Turing machine wants...
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Deterministic finite automaton (redirect from Read-only right-moving Turing machines)
eliminating isomorphic automata. Read-only right-moving Turing machines are a particular type of Turing machine that only moves right; these are almost exactly...
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Turing machine (or to be more precise, the definition of acceptance for such a machine) alternates between these modes. An alternating Turing machine...
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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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Busy beaver (section Nondeterministic Turing machines)
programs used in the game are n-state Turing machines, one of the first mathematical models of computation. Turing machines consist of an infinite tape, and...
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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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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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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 multi-tape Turing machine is a variant of the Turing machine that utilizes several tapes. Each tape has its own head for reading and writing. Initially...
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Quantum computing (redirect from Quantum Random Access Machine)
science began to converge. In 1980, Paul Benioff introduced the quantum Turing machine, which uses quantum theory to describe a simplified computer. When digital...
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Computability (section Power of Turing machines)
computability notions weaker than Turing machines are studied in automata theory, while computability notions stronger than Turing machines are studied in the field...
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order. The finite-state machine has less computational power than some other models of computation such as the Turing machine. The computational power...
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computability theory, a Turing reduction from a decision problem A {\displaystyle A} to a decision problem B {\displaystyle B} is an oracle machine that decides...
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deterministic Turing machine, but many complexity classes are based on non-deterministic Turing machines, Boolean circuits, quantum Turing machines, monotone...
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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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Kolmogorov complexity (redirect from Universal prefix-free Turing machine)
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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Scotland Turing jump Turing Lecture Turing machine Alternating Turing machine Multi-track Turing machine Multitape Turing machine Neural Turing machine Non-deterministic...
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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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Given a set A {\displaystyle A} , the Turing jump A ′ {\displaystyle A'} is the set of indices of oracle Turing machines that halt on input 0 {\displaystyle...
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