The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

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 ...

And then came Turing’s work on finite-state automata. I n 1936, Turing published a paper in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society which proposed a theoretical “machine” (mathematical ...