Thursday, June 28, 2012

UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.

Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him.

Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him.

“Alan Turing is one of the very few people about who you could say that if he had On Saturday, Mr Kasparov unveiled a plaque commemorating Turing on the

A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.

UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

On June 23, Google honored the late gay World War II mathematician/code-breaker Alan Turing with an animated "Turing machine" Google doodle, according to

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but now it's been coded up and who better to pit it against than Garry Kasparov?

A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.

Last week, on June 23, marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of British mathematician Alan Turing, arguably one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Last week, on June 23, marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of British mathematician Alan Turing, arguably one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

Bruce Sterling gave a speech at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) on the eve of the Alan Turing Centenary, and delivered a provocative, witty and important talk on the Turing

LONDON (AP) — A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote. After the war, Turing was prosecuted for homosexuality

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but now it's been coded up and who better to pit it against than Garry Kasparov?

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but now it's been coded up and who better to pit it against than Garry Kasparov?

He broke the Nazis' code. He pioneered artificial intelligence. And he died a victim of bigotry.

UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

The Turing Machine gave the world a model for how computers could operate - Page 1.

On Saturday Alan Turing would have celebrated his 100th birthday. In his short life he revolutionised the scientific world and so 2012 has been declared Turing Year to celebrate his life and scientific achievements. You can

Last week, on June 23, marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of British mathematician Alan Turing, arguably one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Bruce Sterling gave a speech at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) on the eve of the Alan Turing Centenary, and delivered a provocative, witty and important talk on the Turing

Bruce Sterling gave a speech at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) on the eve of the Alan Turing Centenary, and delivered a provocative, witty and important talk on the Turing

UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

Alan Turing would have turned 100 this week, an event that would have, no doubt, been greeted with all manner of pomp -- the centennial of a man whose.

On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding

(AP) – 1 minute ago. LONDON (AP) — A group of British lawmakers is calling for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be

The Turing Machine gave the world a model for how computers could operate - Page 1.

LONDON (AP) — A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote. After the war, Turing was prosecuted for homosexuality

UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

One hundred years after he was born, the pioneering work of brilliant British polymath Alan Turing is as important as ever -- so important, in fact, that his thinking about how computers work is still visible in every single line of

Alan Turing proposed "The Imitation Game", now called the Turing Test, in the 1950s, as an evaluation of machine intelligence. The test was to see if a machine

Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him.

In a doodle celebrating the 100th birthday of Alan Turing tomorrow, Google creates a conundrum that the majority of humanity simply won't understand. This is a good thing. Read this blog post by Chris Matyszczyk on

It's no exaggeration to say that Alan Turing was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. Regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, he also made ground-breaking contributions to the

Alan Turing Saved My Life

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but

Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him.

Scientists gathered from Bangalore to Texas on June 23 to honor British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose code-cracking is

A professor has claimed that Alan Turing, who was widely understood to have committed suicide through ingestion of cyanide, may have in fact died

The Imitation Game that was staged at Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing worked as a codebreaker during World War II, on the date of the 100th anniversary of

Alan Turing Saved My Life

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but now it's been coded up and who better to pit it against than Garry Kasparov?

It's Alan Turing's 100th Anniversary today. Interesting for me, since I live near Bletchley Park where he worked during the war. I recommend a visit there, its becoming something of a tourist attraction now after years of obscurity

It's Alan Turing's 100th Anniversary today. Interesting for me, since I live near Bletchley Park where he worked during the war. I recommend a visit there, its becoming something of a tourist attraction now after years of obscurity

This weekend we and Kasparov celebrated the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing , one of the great geniuses of the twentieth century and one of the fathers of computing and artificial intelligence.

University of Southern California Professor Kevin Knight and science fiction author Bruce Sterling have a panel discussion at the Turing Centenary Symposium