A proof made public today illustrates that Stephen Wolfram's 2,3 Turing machine number 596440 is a universal Turing machine, and it has netted a University of Birmingham undergraduate $25,000. In 1936 ...

One of the things we love best about the articles we publish on Hackaday is the dynamic that can develop between the hacker and the readers. At its best, the comment section of an article can be a ...

I barely passed the Introduction to the Theory of Computing course I took as a Comp Sci undergrad, so maybe I'm more impressed with this guy than is warranted, but it's still a great accomplishment.

Default, loops and conditionals – is this all there is? The answer seems to be yes. You might think that there would be a hierarchy of programming languages. Simple ones for simple things and ...

Alan Turing’s 1950 imitation game laid the foundation for the Turing Test, a way to assess machine intelligence through human ...

Can a machine genuinely think, understand, or have a mind? Or, in other words, can machines possess intelligence? One may argue that the answer depends on how we define intelligence. Is intelligence ...

This month is the 75 th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, published in the October 1950 issue of the ...