In computer science and blockchain technology, the term “Turing completeness” describes a system’s ability to carry out any computation that a Turing machine is capable of. A Turing machine is a ...
Once upon a time, over 40 years ago, a horde of computer scientists descended on the West German city of Dortmund. They were competing to catch an elusive quarry — only four of its kind had ever been ...
Quanta Magazine Articles on Turing machinesIn math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ...