A fault-tolerant Turing machine

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would...

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Main Author: Capuni, Ilir
Language:en_US
Published: Boston University 2015
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/13608
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Summary:Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. === The Turing machine is the most studied universal model of computation. This thesis studies the question if there is a Turing machine that can compute reliably even when violations of its transition function occur independently of each other with some small probability. In this thesis, we prove the existence of a Turing machine that - with a polynomial overhead - can simulate any other Turing machine, even when it is subject to faults of the above type, thereby answering the question that was open for 25 years.