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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp018s45qc104| Title: | MODERNIZING A TURING MACHINE |
| Authors: | Adrados, Diogo |
| Advisors: | Clark, Douglas |
| Department: | Computer Science |
| Class Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | This project revisits a 42-year-old Turing Machine to port its arcane and cumbersome coding interface to new technologies. The original programming board is disassembled and analyzed, the machine process imitated on a microcontroller, and conventions that are easy to read, maintain, and apply to existing educational tools are applied to this new technology in hardware, for a product that has the appeal of its physicality and history with a newfound ease of use. We hope that this machine can find a place in our collective cultural history of computer science, and be a tool of historical and theoretical education. |
| Extent: | 22 pages |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp018s45qc104 |
| Type of Material: | Princeton University Senior Theses |
| Language: | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Computer Science, 1988-2020 |
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| PUTheses2015-Adrados_Diogo.pdf | 2.04 MB | Adobe PDF | Request a copy |
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