Alan Turing — "A computer is a universal machine, capable of carrying out any calculation that …"
A computer is a universal machine, capable of carrying out any calculation that can be performed by a human.
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On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Date: 1936
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