samedi 23 juin 2012

Lego Turing Machine: The building blocks of computing in play

A lire sur:  http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/lego-turing-machine-the-building-blocks-of-computing-in-play/6370932?tag=nl.e010

by Nick Heath  |  June 22, 2012, 8:38am PDT  |  Image 1 of 10
The Turing Machine is a theoretical model of how computation takes place. It dates from 1936 and inspired the pioneers who created the modern digital computer. The machine was described in a paper, On Computable Numbers, written by British mathematician Alan Turing.
Researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) or Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam in the Netherlands decided to demonstrate the principles of the machine's operation by building a Turing Machine using a Lego Mindstorms NXT set.
The machine is part of the Turings Erfenis exhibition at the centre, which is running until October to mark the centenary of Turing's birth.
Photo: Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

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