Turing machine

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	Name/Email/Affiliation	Brief note
	John E. Hopcroft (edit) (jehcs dot cornell dot edu) Computer Science Department, Cornell University, NY	Professor Hopcroft is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University. He was honored with the A. M. Turing Award in 1986. In addition to his research work, he is well known for his books on algorithms and formal languages coauthored with Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho, regarded as classic texts in the field.
	Marvin Minsky (edit) (Marvin Minsky media.mit.edu>) CSAIL and Media Lab, MIT	A well-known researcher of artificial intelligence, Minsky wrote the book Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines (Automatic Computation) in 1967, that covers automata theory.
	Stephen Wolfram (edit) (s.wolframwolfram.com) Wolfram Research, Inc.	Stephen Wolfram is a physicist known for his work in cellular automata and creator of Mathematica. He found the simplest known Universal Turing machine (2,5), outlined in his popular book A New Kind of Science.

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