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Effective computability, broadly defined as the domain of phenomena that can be algorithmically measured and computed, used to be restrained to measuring physical quantities like vehicle speed or electrons flowing down a copper wire.

From Slate • May 27, 2023

You needed the modern theory of computability, which was developed by Alan Turing and other great mathematicians of the 1930s and ’40s.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2016

His conceptual notions, such as the Universal Turing Machine, provided the basis for serious analysis of computability and decidability.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2012

He did make a brief contribution to the book, buried in chapter 26, in which he summarized computability and the universal machine.

From Nature • Feb. 22, 2012

Turing’s very last publication, a Science News article of 1954 on computability, demonstrates how ably he could have written such an analysis.

From Newsweek