[game_preservation] Turning Machine

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,

The ACM's highest award, often called the "Nobel Prize of computing," is 
the Turing Prize.   He has not been ignored, either by computer 
scientists or historians of computing.  Not that anything can change the 
tragic years at the end of his life.

And, indeed there are turning machines.  Like the ones on this page:
http://learningmechanic.blogspot.com/2008/07/turning-machine.html

And you could use a Turing machine to simulate a Turning machine ...

Henry

Devin Monnens wrote:

> What if the machine could turn apples into gold? THEN you'd have a 

> turning machine :)

>

> Turing apparently made the first chess program, but it coudln't be run 

> because there was no computer powerful enough at the time. He later 

> assisted Dietrich Prinz in his chess program. Turing tends to be a bit 

> ignored in computer history due to his sexual affiliations. He was 

> incredibly intelligent, and much of what we have based AI and computer 

> philosophy on can in some ways be connected to him. It's great to see 

> new material on his work!

>

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx 

> <mailto:mike at multimedia.cx>> wrote:

>

>     Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

>         Saw this on the NMOC mailing list: http://aturingmachine.com/

>

>         Was pretty impressive. I realise such a machine is not exactly

>         game material (although no doubt you could program some simple

>         tic-tac-toe pretty easily on it), but as a basis of how

>         computers can or do work, it's nice to see the stuff from

>         Turning's original papers actually be made and work. Very fun

>         to watch it too, if you check the video at the bottom.

>

>

>     "Turing." The name is "Turing." No hard 'n'. Say it with me now...

>

>     :)

>

>     -- 

>        -Mike Melanson

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> Devin Monnens

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