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- Title
Turing and the Serendipitous Discovery of the Modern Computer.
- Authors
Anguera de Sojo, Aurea; Ares, Juan; Lara, Juan; Lizcano, David; Martínez, María; Pazos, Juan
- Abstract
In the centenary year of Turing's birth, a lot of good things are sure to be written about him. But it is hard to find something new to write about Turing. This is the biggest merit of this article: it shows how von Neumann's architecture of the modern computer is a serendipitous consequence of the universal Turing machine, built to solve a logical problem.
- Subjects
TURING machines; COMPUTER architecture; PROBLEM solving; VON Neumann algebras; SERENDIPITY; MACHINE theory
- Publication
Foundations of Science, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 3, p545
- ISSN
1233-1821
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10699-013-9327-x