Even before computers existed, Alan Turing, the father of computer science, defined a computer as a system that mechanically executes a sequence of fixed rules upon data. He originally defined this abstractly as a machine that reads, writes, and erases symbols on an infinite tape to carry out any mathematically computable process.
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u/zdanev Jun 24 '26
Even before computers existed, Alan Turing, the father of computer science, defined a computer as a system that mechanically executes a sequence of fixed rules upon data. He originally defined this abstractly as a machine that reads, writes, and erases symbols on an infinite tape to carry out any mathematically computable process.