Universal Turing machine

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A Turing machine (TM) is a theoretical computing machine conceived by Alan Turing in 1937 representing an idealized model for a given mathematical calculation. A Turing machine that is able to simulate any other Turing machine is called a universal Turing machine (UTM), or simply a universal machine.

See also

• Theoretical computer science
• Turing machines

External links

• Weisstein, Eric W., Universal Turing Machine, from MathWorld—A Wolfram Web Resource.
• Welcome — Association for Computing Machinery.