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It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. If this machine <math>\mathcal{U}</math> is supplied … - Alan Turing
" "It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. If this machine <math>\mathcal{U}</math> is supplied with a tape on the beginning of which is written the S.D of some computing machine <math>\mathcal{M}</math>, then <math>\mathcal{U}</math> will compute the same sequence as <math>\mathcal{M}</math>.
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Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
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The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research.
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