Artificial muscle computer performs as a universal Turing machine
Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —In 1936, Alan Turing showed that all computers are simply manifestations of an underlying logical architecture, no matter what materials they're made of. Although most of the computer's we're familiar with are made of silicon semiconductors, other computers have been made of DNA, light, legos, paper, and many other unconventional materials.