Wolfram Offers Prize for Proof of Universality of (2,3) Turing Machine

Price announcementSome comments on it.  (Courtesy of Zvi Biener.)

3 Comments

  1. Aizawa

    Just to rib Big G a little on a paper of his I just commented on, the Wolfram folks appear to say that a universal TM “emulates” any Turing machine, where Big G says that a universal TM “executes” any TM. Is that one vote for Aizawa’s skepticism?

  2. gualtiero

    FWIW, I wouldn’t say that a universal TM executes another TM. I would say that a universal TM executes a program that encodes another TM. I would also say that, in virtue of executing such a program, the universal TM emulates (or simulates) the other TM.

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