LEGO Turing Machine
This is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands). They built it for CWI's exposition "Turings Erfenis" in honor of Alan Turings one hundredth birthday this year.
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who helped define the theoretical model of the computer as we know it today. He was a visionary, one of the few people of his time who recognized the role the computer would play for humanity.
The Turing Machine (1936) is an adequate model of a computer. It can do anything the computers of today or tomorrow can do. You can learn more about the abstraction and why it is important by taking CMSC 451, Automata Theory and Formal Languages.
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who helped define the theoretical model of the computer as we know it today. He was a visionary, one of the few people of his time who recognized the role the computer would play for humanity.
The Turing Machine (1936) is an adequate model of a computer. It can do anything the computers of today or tomorrow can do. You can learn more about the abstraction and why it is important by taking CMSC 451, Automata Theory and Formal Languages.
This model was built with a single a single LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT set. One unfortunate limitation of this Turing Machine is that it has a finite 'tape'. See the Lego Turing Machine site for more information.
