Often considered to be the father of modern computer science, Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.

通常认为他是现代计算机科学之父，图灵利用图灵机的发明提供了一套影响深远的关于算法和计算概念的规范。

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The most famous finite state machine is probably Alan Turing's hypothetical device: the Turing machine, which he wrote about in his 1936 paper, "On Computable Numbers."

最著名的有限状态机可能是阿兰·图灵在1936年发表的论文《On Computable Numbers》上写下的的猜想——图灵机。

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There's also a 1936 first edition of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society where mathematician Alan Mathison Turing introduces the concept of a "universal machine, " an imaginary computing device.

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Since the days of Alan Turing, the promise of a digital computer has been that of a universal machine, one that can be a word processor one minute and a robot brain the next.

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Turing is celebrated for his work in deciphering messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine.

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