Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...

Quanta Magazine Articles on Turing machinesIn math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ...

One of the problems with a classic Turing machine is the tape must be infinitely long. [Mark’s] Turing Ring still doesn’t have an infinite tape, but it does make it circular to save space. That along ...

Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.