English

Supertask Computation

Logic 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Infinite time Turing machines extend the classical Turing machine concept to transfinite ordinal time, thereby providing a natural model of infinitary computability that sheds light on the power and limitations of supertask algorithms.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0212049,
  title  = {Supertask Computation},
  author = {Joel David Hamkins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0212049},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages. This is the text of a talk I gave for the conference on the Foundations of the Formal Sciences III, held in Vienna, September, 2001. (The logo on the cover page is incorrect.)