TITLE: Universal Turing Machine
ARTIST: John Steins
MEDIUM: Wood Engraving
IMAGE SIZE: 8 x 8.75 in
PAPER SIZE: 11 x 13 in
EDITION SIZE: 150
PAPER: Goyu
OTHER MARKS: signed, titled, numbered in pencil

PRICE: $150

UNIVERSAL TURING MACHINE – NARRATIVE:

Alan Turing is one of the fathers of modern computing. The Turing Machine is a hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Some believe that this universal Turing machine computational model is the origin of the  stored computer program.

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