A computer science professor from Sweden has discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the Universal Turing Machine, one of the earliest computer designs in history. Pontus Johnson, a ...

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The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

This kind of machine would be a simpler and easier target for those working on molecular computing This kind of machine would be a simpler and easier target for those working on molecular computing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. The first Turing Test (a.k.a Loebner Prize Competition) is held ...