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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probabilities for the transitions, probabilistic Turing machines can be defined as deterministic Turing machines having an additional "write" instruction where...
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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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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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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 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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cellular automaton) is said to be Turing-complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine[citation needed] (devised by...
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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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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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"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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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 (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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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computability theory, an oracle machine is an abstract machine used to study decision problems. It can be visualized as a Turing machine with a black box, called...
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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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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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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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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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a universal Turing machine Turing degree equivalence (of sets), having the same level of unsolvability Turing machine equivalents Turing test (disambiguation)...
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Computability theory (redirect from Turing computability)
(Turing) computable, or recursive function if there is a Turing machine that, on input n, halts and returns output f(n). The use of Turing machines here...
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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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A Multitrack Turing machine is a specific type of multi-tape Turing machine. In a standard n-tape Turing machine, n heads move independently along n tracks...
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