Turing machines are widely believed to be universal, in the sense that any computation done by any system can also be done by a Turing machine. In a new article, researchers present their work ...

Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrays Turing in The Imitation Game, out Nov. 28 Alan Turing, the intellectual father of the modern computer, had a theory. He believed that one day machines would become ...

Turing machines were first proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936, and are a theoretical mathematical model of what it means for a system to "be a computer." At a high level, these ...