• computer science, a universal Turing machine (UTM) is a Turing machine capable of computing any computable sequence, as described by Alan Turing in his seminal...
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    calculus. A Turing machine that is able to simulate any other Turing machine is called a universal Turing machine (UTM, or simply a universal machine). Another...
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  • simulate a Turing machine, it is Turing equivalent to a Turing machine. A universal Turing machine can be used to simulate any Turing machine and by extension...
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  • A quantum Turing machine (QTM) or universal quantum computer is an abstract machine used to model the effects of a quantum computer. It provides a simple...
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  • "library" can be printed. Turing machine Universal Turing machine Alternating Turing machine Probabilistic Turing machine Turing machine equivalents Sipser,...
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  • probabilities for the transitions, probabilistic Turing machines can be defined as deterministic Turing machines having an additional "write" instruction where...
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    encoding for Turing machines, where an encoding is a function which associates to each Turing Machine M a bitstring <M>. If M is a Turing Machine which, on...
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  • A Turing machine is a hypothetical computing device, first conceived by Alan Turing in 1936. Turing machines manipulate symbols on a potentially infinite...
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    branch instruction. Nevertheless, the Z3 was Turing-complete – how to implement a universal Turing machine on the Z3 was shown in 1998 by Raúl Rojas. He...
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  • relationship between partial Turing machines and total Turing machines: Can every partial function computable by a partial Turing machine be extended (that is...
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  • In computability theory, the UTM theorem, or universal Turing machine theorem, is a basic result about Gödel numberings of the set of computable functions...
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    distribution over programs (that is, inputs to a universal Turing machine). The prior is universal in the Turing-computability sense, i.e. no string has zero...
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  • described a universal 2-state 5-symbol Turing machine, and conjectured that a particular 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine (hereinafter (2,3) Turing machine) might...
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  • A Multitrack Turing machine is a specific type of multi-tape Turing machine. In a standard n-tape Turing machine, n heads move independently along n tracks...
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  • A symmetric Turing machine is a Turing machine which has a configuration graph that is undirected (that is, configuration i yields configuration j if and...
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  • Turing machine starting from a given state ever print a given symbol?") and to the printing problem considered in Turing's 1936 paper ("does a Turing...
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  • super-Turing computation is a set of hypothetical models of computation that can provide outputs that are not Turing-computable. For example, a machine that...
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  • Universality probability is an abstruse probability measure in computational complexity theory that concerns universal Turing machines. A Turing machine...
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  • computational complexity theory, an alternating Turing machine (ATM) is a non-deterministic Turing machine (NTM) with a rule for accepting computations that...
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  • machine (the so-called Harvard architecture). The RA-machine's equivalent of the universal Turing machine – with its program in the registers as well as its...
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  • In theoretical computer science, a nondeterministic Turing machine (NTM) is a theoretical model of computation whose governing rules specify more than...
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  • In theoretical computer science, a Turing machine is a theoretical machine that is used in thought experiments to examine the abilities and limitations...
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  • Turing machine as a natural number: this is the description number of that Turing machine under Turing's universal machine. The simple Turing machine...
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    programs used in the game are n-state Turing machines, one of the first mathematical models of computation. Turing machines consist of an infinite tape, and...
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  • Zeno machines (abbreviated ZM, and also called accelerated Turing machine, ATM) are a hypothetical computational model related to Turing machines that...
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  • computability theory, the Church–Turing thesis (also known as computability thesis, the Turing–Church thesis, the Church–Turing conjecture, Church's thesis...
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  • to supplement the article Turing machine. The following table is Turing's very first example (Turing 1937): "1. A machine can be constructed to compute...
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    Turing machine Symmetric Turing machine Unambiguous Turing machine Universal Turing machine Wolfram's 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine Turing Machine (band)...
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  • A Turing machine is an abstract mathematical computational device named after Alan Turing; see the box for variants of this meaning. Turing machine may...
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    1936, Alan Turing introduced the Universal Turing machine, a theoretical device that can model every computation. It is a finite-state machine that has...
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