Universal Turing Machine Self Portrait, Version F0.UTM

Roman Verostko created his Universal Turing Machine Self Portrait in celebration of Alan Turing’s seminal text, On Computable Numbers (1936). Turing’s paper outlined a procedural method for deciding all “decidable” statements and ultimately identifies the concept underlying all of computing, now ubiquitous within global society. Verostko became captivated by the Universal Turing Machine procedure or “meta-algorithm of algorithms” as described in The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics (1989) by Sir Roger Penrose, noting, “To me it symbolized a historical turning point in the human ability to manage extensive rational procedure. Many are not aware of the...View all