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En 1936, Alan Turing a imaginé un modèle abstrait pour définir une notion qui jusqu’alors était restée intuitive : la calculabilité. Ce modèle est aujourd’hui connu sous le nom de machine de Turing et est toujours utilisé en informatique théorique … Continue reading →

Alan Turing, born a century ago this year, is best known for his wartime code-breaking and for inventing the ‘Turing machine’ – the concept at the heart of every computer today. But his legacy extends much further: he founded the … Continue reading →

The computer is a radical invention. In less than a single lifetime it has transformed economies and societies like nothing before. In the future, artificial intelligence and ubiquitous, quantum and molecular computing may even make us immortal – part of … Continue reading →

A student team from the Computer Science Department of ENS de Lyon (Elie GEDEON, Anael GRANDJEAN, Thomas LAMBERT, Yannick LEO, Thomas LEVENTIS, Robin PERROTIN, Etienne PYCIRCAN & Florent ROBIC) has build a Turing machine. We do not mean to simulate … Continue reading →