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For all the ideas embedded in "Turing Machine," actor Lee Sang-yun says the play is about a human being. “There’s a great ...

The archive highlights a lifelong friendship between two renowned mathematicians. However, despite his accolades and singular mind, Turing couldn’t evade society’s bigotry. In 1952, a court in the ...

Alan Turing, born a century ago this year, is best known for his wartime code-breaking and for inventing the 'Turing machine' – the concept at the heart of every computer today. But his legacy extends ...

A mathematical model of computation. Named after English scientist Alan Turing, a Turing machine is a finite state machine that reads a tape divided into cells. The Turing machine examines the symbol ...

In 1950, Alan Turing had an answer to that question—a computer was capable of “thought” if its output was so convincing that a person interacting with it couldn ’ t distinguish its answers from those ...