Wolfram Offers Prize For (2,3) Turing Machine

An anonymous reader writes "Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and author of A New Kind of Science, is offering a prize of $25K to anyone who can prove or disprove his conjecture that a particular 2-state, 3-color Turing machine is universal. If true, it would be the simplest universal TM, and possibly the simplest universal computational system. The announcement comes on the 5-year anniversary of the publication of NKS, where among other things Wolfram introduced the current reigning TM champion — 'rule 110,' with 2 states and 5 colors."

Comments

They have it all wrong.

[itsmilesdavis]

'rule 110'? Come on, that's so much less interesting than 'rule 265'.

Oh, damn, I guess I better RTFAs.

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