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  2. Digi-Comp II - Wikipedia

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    Computer scientist Scott Aaronson analyzed the computational power of the Digi-Comp II. [4] There are several ways to mathematically model the device's computational capabilities. A natural abstraction is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) in which each internal vertex has an out-degree of 2, representing a toggle cam that routes balls to one of ...

  3. Alan Turing - Wikipedia

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    Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ ˈtjʊərɪŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. [ 5 ] He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation ...

  4. Automatic Computing Engine - Wikipedia

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    The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945, having had experience in the years prior with the secret Colossus computer at Bletchley Park. The ACE was not built, but a smaller version, the Pilot ACE, was constructed ...

  5. Computing Machinery and Intelligence - Wikipedia

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    References. Computing Machinery and Intelligence. " Computing Machinery and Intelligence " is a seminal paper written by Alan Turing on the topic of artificial intelligence. The paper, published in 1950 in Mind, was the first to introduce his concept of what is now known as the Turing test to the general public.

  6. Mechanical computer - Wikipedia

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    A mechanical computer is a computer built from mechanical components such as levers and gears rather than electronic components. The most common examples are adding machines and mechanical counters, which use the turning of gears to increment output displays. More complex examples could carry out multiplication and division—Friden used a ...

  7. Z3 (computer) - Wikipedia

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    The Z3 was a German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. [ 3 ] The Z3 was built with 2,600 relays, implementing a 22- bit word length that operated at a clock frequency of about 5–10 Hz. [ 1 ]

  8. Universal Turing machine - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, a universal Turing machine (UTM) is a Turing machine capable of computing any computable sequence, [1] as described by Alan Turing in his seminal paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". Common sense might say that a universal machine is impossible, but Turing proves that it is possible.

  9. Turing Award - Wikipedia

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    Website. amturing.acm.org. The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. [ 2 ] It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the field of computer science and is often referred to as the " Nobel ...