Turing Machine Equivalents - Other Equivalent Machines and Methods

Other Equivalent Machines and Methods

  • Multidimensional Turing machine: For example, a model by Schönhage (1980) uses the four head-movement commands { North, South, East, West }.
  • Single-tape, multi-head Turing machine: In an undecidability proof of the "problem of tag", Minsky 1961 and Shepherdson and Sturgis (1963) described machines with a single tape that could write along the tape with one head and read further along the tape with another.
  • Markov Algorithm (1960) is another remarkably simple computational model, based on string rewriting, equivalent to the Turing machines.
  • Lambda calculus
  • Queue automaton

Read more about this topic:  Turing Machine Equivalents

Famous quotes containing the words equivalent, machines and/or methods:

    Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
    Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)

    The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotents.
    Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.
    Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)