Sentence examples for be a universal computer from inspiring English sources

Von Neumann's CA was also the first discrete parallel computational model in history formally shown to be a universal computer, i.e., capable of emulating a universal Turing machine and computing all recursive functions.

In 1970 the mathematician John Conway introduced his aforementioned Life game (Berkelamp, Conway, Guy 1982), arguably the most popular automaton ever, and one of the simplest computational models ever proved to be a universal computer.

But Dr. Wolfram said that as far back as 1984 he suspected that these automata could be a universal computer.

"We've known for 50 years that complexity can come from simpler and simpler things," Dr. Farmer said, adding that it had been shown that even bouncing billiard balls could be a universal computer.

Indeed, he said in an interview, scientists seeking predictable behavior had regarded the chaotic patterns of some cellular automata as a "nuisance". But Dr. Wolfram said that as far back as 1984 he suspected that these automata could be a universal computer.

Turing proved that this minimalist design is a "universal" computer, capable of performing any calculation.

Although they seem at first glance to bear little relation to Turing machines, work by Dr. von Neumann later showed that at least one version of a cellular automata, in which the cells could have 29 colors, was also a universal computer.

A first conclusion has already been partially explored in connection with Life: if nature is a CA, it has to be a universal CA, given that universal computers (e.g., the one on which you are reading this entry) uncontroversially exist in the physical world.

The holy grail is a universal quantum computer, one that can run any algorithm just as computers today can run any algorithm.

"It's a rudimentary demonstration that carbon nanotubes can be used to build a universal computer, or a Turing-complete machine.

Unless there really was such a thing as a universal computer, there was no way a description of complexity could be fundamental.