 | 2002 - 608 lapas
...a tape divided into squares. I shall also suppose that the number of symbols . . . is finite . . . The behaviour of the computer at any moment Is determined...symbols which he Is observing, and his 'state of mind.' . . . We may suppose . . . the number of states of mind which need to be taken Into account is finite.... | |
 | 1997 - 294 lapas
..."Computable Numbers." Turing observed that the "behavior of the computer [a human doing calculations] at any moment is determined by the symbols which he is observing, and his 'state of mind' at that time."34 Continuing his description of a human computer, he wrote: "We know the state of the system... | |
 | E.R. Griffor - 1999 - 724 lapas
...finite means". Considering the "computer" as an idealized human clerk, Turing argued that the "behavior of the computer at any moment is determined by the...observing, and his 'state of mind' at that moment", and specified that the number of "states of mind" should be finite, since "human memory is necessarily... | |
 | Michael E. Hobart, Zachary S. Schiffman - 2000 - 324 lapas
...resemble human thought in two basic ways, for "the behavior of the computer [understood here as a person] at any moment is determined by the symbols which he...observing, and his 'state of mind' at that moment." In Turing's idealization the machine's symbols were situated discretely, one by one, in a linear sequence... | |
 | R. D. Tennent - 2002 - 308 lapas
...to Formal Language Theory. Springer Verlag, 1988. Chapter 8 State-Transition Diagrams The behavior of the computer at any moment is determined by the...observing and his "state of mind" at that moment. Alan M. Turing' One of the most basic paradigms in computing is that of a device being, at any time,... | |
 | Slava Gerovitch - 2004 - 386 lapas
...any computation performed by a human mathematician. He postulated that "the behavior of the [human] computer at any moment is determined by the symbols...observing, and his 'state of mind' at that moment." 70 He compared "a man in the process of computing a real number to a machine which is only capable... | |
 | James Moor - 2003 - 294 lapas
...472 WJ RAPAPORT computed.* Turing distinguished between a computing machine and a (human) computer: The behaviour of the computer at any moment is determined...and his 'state of mind' at that moment. ... We may now construct a machine to do the work of this computer. To each state of mind of the computer corresponds... | |
 | Christof Teuscher - 2004 - 580 lapas
...then discussed how the behavior of a human computer is controlled during the process of calculation. "The behaviour of the computer at any moment is determined...observing, and his state of mind' at that moment" (p. 250). It is not entirely clear why Turing felt obliged to use quotation marks to delineate the... | |
 | B. Jack. Copeland - 2004 - 622 lapas
...he says, for example, 'Computing is normally done by writing certain symbols on paper" (p. 75) and 'The behaviour of the computer at any moment is determined...symbols which he is observing, and his "state of mind'" (p. 75). The Turing machine is an idealization of the human computer (p. 59): 'We may compare a man... | |
 | Glen van Brummelen, Michael Kinyon - 2005 - 384 lapas
...second he takes up his promise to defend these definitions. The crucial part of his argument is that The behaviour of the computer at any moment is determined...observing, and his 'state of mind' at that moment — Let us imagine the operations performed by the computer to be split up into 'simple operations'... | |
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The behaviour of the computer at any moment is determined by the symbols which he is observing, and his 'state of mind' at that moment. We may suppose that there is a bound B to the number of symbols or squares which the computer can observe at any one... 
