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Topic: Turing machine

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Typewriter
Bad point(s):Lazy
Personality:Analytical
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Favorite body part(s):Brain
Favorite book(s):"Relativity: The Special and the General Theory" by Albert Einstein
Favorite great thinker(s):Alan Turing,  Ada Lovelace,  Archimedes
Interest(s):Maths,  Physics,  Science
Favorite computer game(s):SimCity
Ultimate fantasy(s):Being normal
Favorite philosopher(s):Spinoza,  Hegel,  Descartes
Favorite quote(s):"All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. Which means that all men are homosexuals.." - Love and Death
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
 
 
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

Yet Turing's unsolvability results show that there is no good way to pick out certain kinds of machines short of letting them run.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Turing Machines (TMs) model arbitrary discrete computations, typified by the computations performed by digital computers.
Turing machines, general recursive functions, and other standard models of computation are introduced.
Computability theory, Turing machines and equivalent models of computation.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

This is why Dell and Compaq do not sell Turing machines or rule 110 cellular automata.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

What is misleading in the equivalence between Turing machines and formal systems is the way theorems are actually obtained in the working experience of mathematicians.
Turing's paper dealt with pure mathematics but his reasoning employed a simplified hypothetical computer known today as a Turing machine.
Turing machines and phrase structure languages, closure properties, decidability results, non determinism.
 
 
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