Turing machine

基本解释

No one wants to program a Turing machine.
没人想在图灵机上写程序。
That is, you can use rule 110 to compute any function that a universal Turing machine can compute.
即，可以用 110 规则计算任何一般性图灵机可以计算的函数。
Often considered to be the father of modern computer science, Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
通常认为他是现代计算机科学之父，图灵利用图灵机的发明提供了一套影响深远的关于算法和计算概念的规范。

Its prototype Turing machine uses a set of electroactive polymer muscles to push memory elements into place and squeeze piezoresistive switches, performing virtually any calculation through flexing.
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Once you have a basic level of hardware functionality (what is called a Turing machine) all kinds of applications can be created with a mixture of hardware and software.
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There's also a 1936 first edition of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society where mathematician Alan Mathison Turing introduces the concept of a "universal machine, " an imaginary computing device.
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a hypothetical universal computing machine able to modify its original instructions by reading, erasing, or writing a new symbol on a moving tape of fixed length that acts as its program. The concept was instrumental in the early development of computer systems