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31.) First 10 pages ? Very Rough Draft
Over one day ago | Mon Sep 22 20:38:00 PDT 2008
And, in fact, Alan Turing gave an answer to that question when he formally defined computation in the 1936. His thought experiment was as follows: imagine an infinitely long ?tape? divided into cells; and imagine a ?head? which can do ...
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32.) Filming the World Laboratory
Over one day ago | Mon Oct 13 15:26:00 PDT 2008
As Turing noted, ?it is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.?6 The transition rules of all these singular machines could then be recorded on the tape itself, so as to constitute the ...
From brianholmes
33.) Obama-McCain: I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow
Over one day ago | Tue Oct 7 17:57:00 PDT 2008
2.47: Oil use: What that means is that the United States is filthy rich. How terrible! 2.46: I think Obama meant the internet, but the computer was not invented in America. Shout out to Alan Turing! And Bletchley Park! ...
From alex massie
34.) History of the Internet
Over one day ago | Tue Oct 28 8:52:00 PDT 2008
1972 Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs invents the C programming language. 1972 Edsger Dijkstra is awarded the ACM Turning Award. 1972 The compact disc is invented in the United States. 1972 Cray Research Inc. is founded. ...
From aaron50
35.) Review: The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
Over one day ago | Mon Jul 21 6:46:00 PDT 2008
Let me start by saying while reading The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine I encountered two other reviews worth note. The first review by Jeff Atwood focused on ...
From Michael C. Neel
36.) minsky 8: resourcefulness
Over one day ago | Mon Oct 6 23:16:00 PDT 2008
Overview of Chapter 8 of The Emotion Machine (summary, online draft, buy) Before Alan Turing we did not know about a single machine that could emulate other machines. Turing opened the door to developing a machine which can have ...
From Bill Kerr
37.) Part 2, 3 of info tech assignments
Over one day ago | Thu Oct 2 18:07:00 PDT 2008
In 1936 Alan Turing, a British Mathematician, came up with an idea for an imaginary machine that could carry out all kinds of computations on numbers and symbols. Turing?s Machine is the first step of the modern theory of computation ...
From cronaldo15
38.) I don't know whether to be envious or awe struck
Over one day ago | Mon Sep 22 21:13:00 PDT 2008
He absorbed through his mentors the mathematical philosophy of Alan Turing, the genius whose crew at Bletchley Park ? the headquarters? predecessor ? broke Germany?s encryption codes during World War II. The biggest lesson he learned ...
From Caleb
39.) Digital New Media Timeline (#3 - #12)
Over one day ago | Sun Oct 19 15:05:00 PDT 2008
Alan Turing, 1950 --Began the famous (and still active) Turing test, which judges whether or not a computer is capable of thought. --Turing's codebreaking ability helped England against German U-boats. --His work influenced the creation ...
From Richard R.
40.) mimicry, originality
Over one day ago | Sun Oct 5 15:26:00 PDT 2008
stitched between sadie plant?s first mention of alan turing and her later assessment of the turing test, the section titled ?eve 1? is strategically positioned to complement what follows it in such a way that much of plant?s ...
From rachel
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