McCarthy's Turing Machines

McCarthy's Turing Machines are a conceptual framework developed by John McCarthy, expanding on the original Turing Machine model to include functions like decision-making and problem-solving. Unlike classic machines that only perform predefined actions, McCarthy's version can handle more complex operations, such as conditional branching and recursive functions, making it better suited for modeling programming languages and artificial intelligence tasks. These machines serve as an abstract tool to understand how computers process information, enabling us to study the limits of computation and the formal foundations of programming logic.