A hypothesis called digital physics states that this is no accident, because the universe itself is computable on
a universal Turing machine.
The brilliance of computing is in the radically simple notion of
the universal Turing machine.
A machine made of DNA offers a new concept for a non-deterministic
universal Turing machine that could solve problems faster than existing computers
This confirms to me only that they do not appreciate the levels of complexity possible in contemporary machines and in particular in
a universal Turing machine.
The hardware acting as
a universal Turing machine is adequate.
This universal Turing machine reads as part of its input data the Turing machine table of the duplicated machine and takes whatever action this machine would have taken on its appropriate input data.
Not exact matches
Turing had shown with his
universal machine that any regular computer would have inescapable limitations.
Wolfram Research Hey, remember that $ 25,000 prize awarded by software company Wolfram Research last week for identifying the simplest «
universal» theoretical computer, or
Turing machine?
Interestingly, the
Turing nanopatterning mechanism is common not only for the insect class, but also for spiders, scorpions and centipedes in other words —
universal for arthropods.
In the years after World War II, on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, mathematician John von Neumann assembled a group of eccentric engineers to build and program a «
universal machine» — the modern computer's direct ancestor, which was first envisioned by logician Alan
Turing.
In doing so, they realized the theoretical construct that mathematician Alan
Turing dubbed the
universal machine.