Thursday 21 June 2012

Building a working Turing machine out of Lego is easier than you think



Lego Turing machine

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.


The device, built by Jereon van den Bos and Davy Landman using a single LEGO Mindstorms NXT set, is one of the most impressive - and simple -- attempts we've seen at building a physical Turing machine.


By: Geeta Dayal, Edited by: Ian Steadman


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/21/lego-turing-machine

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