Lego Turing Machine
19/07/12 17:10 Filed in: Bletchley Park
Andre Theelen PH7AT has made a short documentary about a Turing Machine built out of LEGO.
Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, built it for CWI's exposition "Turings Erfenis" in honour of Alan Turing's 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 watch the video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSAiF9AHN4
For more on the LEGO Turing Machine go to www.legoturingmachine.org/
Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, built it for CWI's exposition "Turings Erfenis" in honour of Alan Turing's 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 watch the video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSAiF9AHN4
For more on the LEGO Turing Machine go to www.legoturingmachine.org/