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Eric Fleury was the co-chair of the conference "Alan Turing's Heritage ". This Turing Centenary Conference has been be held in Lyon on July 2-4, 2012. At this occasion, a short movie The Turing Machine Comes True was released on the "Real Turing Machine" built from a student team from the Computer Science Department of ENS de Lyon. We do not mean to simulate a Turing machine as it is indeed very easy to simulate a Turing machine on a modern computer. The challenge was really to build a purely mechanical Turing's machine y using only LEGO bricks, gear, rod, pneumatic jack...