Institute for Sensory Research
Syracuse University

621 Skytop Road
Syracuse, NY 13244-5290

Phone: 315.443.9714 (lab)
Fax: 315.443.1184

 

Julian Martin Fernandez

 

Turing Machines

 

I studied the problem of the limits of computability. I proposed an ideal machine whose computational power was beyond the Turing limit. There are other paradigms that have more computing power than a Turing machine, like computation over the real numbers. However these ideal devices are not universal (i.e., they are not programmable). The novelty and importance of the machine that I proposed consists in demonstrating that in principle there exists a machine that is both, universal and has a computational power beyond the Turing limit. For more details see Fernandez (2000).