"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine."
— Alan Turing

January 1, 1970

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"Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing," (Summer 1948), submitted to the National Physical Laboratory (1948) and published in Key Papers: Cybernetics, ed. C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson (1968) and, in variant form, in Machine Intelligence 5, ed. B. Meltzer and D. Michie (1969).