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Tech Report CS-04-14

The Orgins of the Turing Thesis Myth

Dina Goldin, Peter Wegner

October 2004

Abstract:

In this paper, we identify and analyze the historical reasons for the widespread acceptance of what we call the Turing Thesis myth, which extends the Turing Thesis to imply that Turing Machines model all computers.

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