Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936.

A small subset of these Turing machines are known as Universal Turing machines; they are capable of solving any computational problem known.

The bottom line is that a Turing machine is something that uses very, very simple rules to perform computations. As originally conceived, Turing machines are not physical objects but mathematical ones ...

For several years, [Jim] has wanted to construct a fully-mechanical universal Turing machine. Without the help of any electronic circuits or electrical input, his goal was to build the machine usin… ...

Alan Turing is credited as being the first to dream up the concept of a computer and how it might work. This was in the 1930s. His ideas form the basis of the machines that we rely upon today. He ...

Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of computer-science pioneer Alan Turing with a minigame based on one of his “thinking” machines.

In honor of Alan Turing's hundredth birthday, Davy Landman, Jereon van den Bos, and Paul Klint built a Turning Machine out of LEGOS. And if you like, you can build one too.

A professor of computer science explains why the original limitations of Turing Machines still govern the age of advanced AI like ChatGPT.