This is a short
documentary about
the LEGO Turing
Machine built by
Jeroen van den Bos
and Davy Landman at
Centrum Wiskunde &
Informatica (CWI),
Amsterdam
(Netherlands). They
built it for CWI's
exposition "Turings
Erfenis" in honor of
the centenary of
Alan Turing's birth
on 23 June 1912.
Alan Turing was a
brilliant
mathematician who
helped define the
theoretical model of
the computer as we
know it today. He
was a visionary, one
of the few people of
his time who
recognized the role
the computer would
play for humanity.
The Turing Machine
(1936) is an
adequate model of a
computer. It can do
anything the
computers of today
or tomorrow can do.
More on the LEGO
Turing Machine here:
legoturingmachine.org/
More info on the
exposition here:
cwi.nl/2012-alan-turing-year
(in Dutch)
More info on the
making of this video
here:
ecalpemos.nl/2012/06/18/lego-turing-machine-video/