A Universal Turing Machine with Two Internal States
by Shannon, Claude E. [Elwood]; McCarthy, J. (editor with Shannon)
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"Our main result is to show that a universal Turing machine can be constructed using one tape and having only two internal states. It will also be shown that it is impossible to do this with one internal state. Finally, a construction is given for a universal Turing machine with only two tape symbols." (p 158 of introduction)
"A Turing machine which, by appropriate programming using a finite length of input tape, can act as any Turing machine whatsoever. In his seminal paper, Turing himself gave the first construction for a universal Turing machine (Turing 1937, 1938). Shannon (1956) showed that two colors were sufficient, so long as enough states were used. [ as here ]" Wolfram Mathworld
PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files.
REFERENCES:
Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #93.
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- Title
- A Universal Turing Machine with Two Internal States
- Author
- Shannon, Claude E. [Elwood]; McCarthy, J. (editor with Shannon)
- Format/Binding
- Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, NJ
- Date Published
- 1956
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