That’s why the machines were central to Turing’s paper. To show there were algorithms that Turing machines would run indefinitely and inconclusively was a way of showing Hilbert was mistaken.

Britain’s Alan Turing published a paper entitled “On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem” on November 12, 1937, that would form the basic theory of computability for ...

Turing’s great insight was to provide a concrete answer to the computation question in the form of an abstract machine, later named the Turing machine by his doctoral adviser, Alonzo Church. It’s ...

The new method was inspired by the famous Turing test, which was first proposed by Alan Turing, in 1950. It’s creators have called it “Turing learning." ...

Alan Turing Birth Anniversary: Father of modern computing who cracked the Nazi code and developed the ultimate humans vs. machine test ...

A machine with superhuman intelligence is a staple of science fiction. But what about a machine with just ordinary human intelligence? A machine that's so humanlike in its behavior that you can't tell ...

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 usin… ...