tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53098938530962152912024-02-26T07:01:37.843+00:00Turing100Alan M. Turing b. 23 June 1912
Father of "Can machines think?" thought experiment. In his honour Reading University hosted a special Turing test event at Bletchley Park on Saturday 23 June 2012.Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-29965877360780817062013-12-24T13:18:00.001+00:002013-12-24T17:52:54.734+00:00Alan Turing granted posthumous royal pardon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Liberal peer and mathematician <a href="http://www.libdems.org.uk/peers_detail.aspx?name=Lord_Sharkey_&pPK=487fc305-9791-4f86-8cd9-ccdb347a06b5" target="_blank">Lord Sharkey</a> has succeeded in gaining a posthumous pardon for <a href="http://www.turing.org.uk/book/" target="_blank">Alan Turing</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The text of the Royal Pardon can be read <a href="http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/997305/turing.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon.<br />It addresses his 1952 conviction for homosexuality for which he was punished by being chemically castrated.<br />The conviction meant he lost his security clearance and had to stop the code-cracking work that had proved vital to the Allies in World War Two.<br />The pardon was granted under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy after a request by Justice Minister Chris Grayling."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Alan Turing gets royal pardon for 'gross indecency' – 61 years after he poisoned himself.<br /><span style="line-height: 22px;">He was the father of modern computing whose work on the Enigma code at Bletchley Park is said to have shortened the Second World War.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing receives royal pardon.<br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.25;">Mathematician lost his job and was given experimental 'chemical castration' after being convicted for homosexual activity in 1952</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alan Turing, the wartime codebreaker, has been granted a posthumous pardon by the Queen for his criminal conviction for homosexuality. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr Turing, who helped Britain to win World War II, killed himself after receiving the conviction in 1952.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em;">He has now been granted a pardon under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy after a high-profile campaign supported by tens of thousands of people including Professor Stephen Hawking.</span> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18px;">Six decades after his chemical castration and later suicide, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science and breaker of the Nazis’ Enigma code, is being pardoned on Tuesday for his conviction for homosexuality.</span>Turing – whose code-breaking work is said to have shortened the second world war by two years – has been granted a <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05d1eaf8-486e-11e2-a6b3-00144feab49a.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e6e9e; text-decoration: none;" title="Turing case cracks the apology code - FT.com">posthumous pardon</a> under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by the Queen, following a U-turn by the UK government.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hailed as a genius in his own time by colleagues at Bletchley Park, the UK’s wartime code-breaking centre, he was later prosecuted for “homosexual activities” after he reported a burglary at his home in Manchester.<br />After police discovered that he was gay, they arrested him under Victorian-era laws against homosexuality. An estimated 49,000 gay men, now dead, were criminalised under the now-defunct Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18px;">Everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine,” Time Magazine wrote in 1999, after naming Turing one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em;">......</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wartime codebreaker Alan Turing ... was convicted in the 1950s for homosexual activity.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The pardon is only the fourth since the Second World War to be granted under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was requested by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, who described Turing as a national hero who fell foul of the law because of his sexuality.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">His code breaking prowess helped the Allies outfox the Nazis, his theories laid the foundation for the computer age, and his work on artificial intelligence still informs the debate over whether machines can think.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">But Alan Turing was gay, and 1950s Britain punished the mathematician's sexuality with a criminal conviction, intrusive surveillance and hormone treatment meant to extinguish his sex drive. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">Now, nearly half a century after the war hero's suicide, Queen Elizabeth II has finally granted Turing a pardon. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">"Turing was an exceptional man with a brilliant mind," Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said in a prepared statement released Tuesday. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">Describing Turing's treatment as unjust, Grayling said the code breaker "deserves to be remembered and recognized for his fantastic contribution to the war effort and his legacy to science." </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">The pardon has been a long time coming.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pioneering Code-Breaker was Convicted of Homosexuality</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">lan Turing, a pioneering code-breaker whose work helped the Allies win World War II and laid the foundations for modern computing, was Tuesday granted a royal pardon by Queen Elizabeth II for a 1952 conviction for homosexuality, 59 years after his death.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mr. Turing's pardon caps a long campaign by scientists, lawmakers and members of the public to overturn a conviction for which the mathematician was sentenced to chemical castration and barred from security work less than a decade after he helped crack Nazi...</span></blockquote>
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<nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Alan Turing, Enigma Code-Breaker and Computer Pioneer, Wins Royal Pardon.</span></nyt_headline><nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0"><span style="color: black; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Nearly 60 years after his death, Alan Turing, the British mathematician regarded as one of the central figures in the development of the computer, received a formal pardon from Queen Elizabeth II on Monday for his conviction in 1952 on charges of homosexuality, at the time a criminal offense in Britain.</span></span></nyt_headline></blockquote>
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<nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0"><span style="color: black; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The pardon was announced by the British justice secretary, Chris Grayling, who had made the request to the queen. Mr. Grayling said in a statement that Mr. Turing, whose most remarkable achievement was helping to develop the machines and algorithms that unscrambled the supposedly impenetrable Enigma code used by the Germans in World War II, “deserves to be remembered and recognized for his fantastic contribution to the war effort and his legacy to science.”</span></span></nyt_headline></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The '<a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/neural-code-breaker/421025.article#.UrlAUeFGPy8.twitter" target="_blank">neural code breaker'</a> (</span><a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/neural-code-breaker/421025.article#.UrlAUeFGPy8.twitter" target="_blank">THE</a><span style="font-size: large;">) Turing's scientific reach is far and wide including the idea of a universal machine, the eponymous <a href="https://www.academia.edu/415888/Deception-detection_and_machine_intelligence_in_practical_Turing_tests" target="_blank">Turing test</a>, <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/deepblue/" target="_blank">chess-playing computers</a>, the mathematics of nature (<a href="http://www.turing.org.uk/publications/ex12.html" target="_blank">morphogenesis</a>) and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next year, 2014<span style="color: #282828;"> is the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing's untimely death - watch out for an exciting event in London organised by cyberneticist Professor<a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/" target="_blank"> Kevin Warwick</a> as well as release of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Imitation Game </a> movie, and lots of publications, including a special issue about '<a href="https://www.academia.edu/5276046/Additional_CALL_FOR_PAPERS_for_Part_2_of_IJSE_special_issue_Turing_and_Emotions" target="_blank">Turing on Emotions</a>' in the<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-synthetic-emotions-ijse/1144" target="_blank"> International Journal of Synthetic Emotions</a>, Volume 5 - and don't forget you can purchase a DVD of <a href="http://www.turingfilm.com/about/production-team/patrick-sammon" target="_blank">Patrick Sammon</a>'s 2011 <b><a href="http://www.turingfilm.com/about/production-team/patrick-sammon" target="_blank">Turing dramadocumentary</a></b> <i style="font-weight: bold;">Codebreaker</i> with <b>Ed Stoppard playing Turing</b>, from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Codebreaker-DVD-Ed-Stoppard/dp/B00CX0KJYC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387890790&sr=8-1&keywords=codebreaker+DVD" target="_blank">here</a>: Amazon.co.uk. </span></span><br />
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Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-24603724789520485562013-10-23T16:59:00.000+01:002013-10-23T16:59:00.837+01:00The Imitation Game movie filming at Kings Cross London<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Playing Turing's one time fiance <b>Joan Clark</b>, mathematician, linguist/cryptanalyst and a co-worker at <a href="http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/" target="_blank">Bletchley Park</a> is <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i> and <i>Atonement</i> actress <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461136/?ref_=tt_cl_t2" target="_blank">Keira Knightley</a>. Filming this week has been at Kings Cross station in London.<br />
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According to Martin Davis's (author of 'The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing') foreword, in the centenary edition of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-M-Turing-Centenary-ebook/dp/B00E3URHEK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382542892&sr=8-1&keywords=Sara+Turing" target="_blank">Sara Turing</a> (Alan Turing's mother) book^ <b>Alan M. Turing:</b><br />
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<b> </b>"Although Alan let her [Joan Clarke] know from the beginning of his homosexual "tendencies", she remained willing to continue the engagement. It was after they spent a week together on a bicycling trip in Wales, that he decided that it wouldn't work, and broke off the engagement. They were, and remained, very fond of one another..." (2012, Cambridge University Press, p. xiii). </blockquote>
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Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com80tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-80680207368265043552013-10-09T21:20:00.000+01:002013-10-09T21:24:42.220+01:00Filming of The Imitation Game movie begun at Bletchley Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Turing, who enjoyed parlour games and created the eponymous <a href="http://www.academia.edu/2195902/Conversation_Deception_and_Intelligence_Turings_question-answer_game" target="_blank">Turing test</a>, a conversational examination of machine thinking, deception and intelligence, is played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212722/?ref_=tt_ov_st" target="_blank"><b>Benedict Cumberbatch</b></a>, BBC1's 21st century <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ttws" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes</a> (with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9" target="_blank">The Hobbit</a>'s Martin Freeman playing Watson) and the villainous Khan in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1408101/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13" target="_blank">Star Trek Into Darkness</a>. </span></div>
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Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-9369530373716888132013-01-20T17:19:00.000+00:002013-01-20T17:19:06.425+00:00Ray Kurzweil talking the Turing test and how to create a mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/" target="_blank"><b>Ray Kurzweil</b></a>, of the <a href="http://longbets.org/1/" target="_blank">Kapor & Kurzeil long bet</a> (machine intelligence by 2029), author of new book <i>'<span style="color: blue;"><b>How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed</b></span>'</i> and now <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Google</a>'s <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/06/googles-director-of-engineering-ray-kurzweil-is-building-your-cybernetic-friend/" target="_blank">Director of Engineering</a> talks <a href="http://www.academia.edu/474617/Turings_misunderstood_imitation_game_and_IBMs_Watson_success" target="_blank">Turing's Imitation Game</a>, popularly known as the <b><a href="http://www.academia.edu/415888/Deception-detection_and_machine_intelligence_in_practical_Turing_tests" target="_blank">Turing test</a>,</b> in his interview with <a href="http://singularityhub.com/2012/09/29/exclusive-interview-with-ray-kurzweil/" target="_blank">Singularity Hub</a>'s Keith Kleiner:</span><br />
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NB: From <a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-best-tribute-to-aaron-swartz" target="_blank">Kurzweil<i> accelerating intelligence</i> blog</a> tribute to <b>Aaron Swartz:</b></div>
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"If you are a scientist, you can pay the best and most effective tribute to the memory of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Aaron Swartz</a> by sharing PDFs of your published work on <a href="http://pdftribute.net/" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">pdftribute.net</a> via the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23pdftribute" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">#pdftribute</a> on Twitter.</div>
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I also suggest to boycott the pay-walled journals of the science mafia and publish on <a href="http://arxiv.org/" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">arXiv</a>, or one of the many excellent open access science journals like <em><a href="http://www.plos.org/publications/journals/" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">PLoS</a></em> and<em><a href="http://www.elifesciences.org/" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">eLife</a></em>. Hit them in the wallet where it hurts; it is the only effective way to protest.</div>
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<em><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23075-activists-death-sparks-openaccess-tribute-on-twitter.html" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">New Scientist</a></em> | Hundreds of researchers have been sharing PDFs of their work on Twitter as a tribute to Aaron Swartz, the internet freedom activist who committed suicide on Friday.</div>
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Swartz was facing hacking charges from the U.S. government after accessing the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and downloading nearly 5 million articles from the digital library <a href="http://www.jstor.org/" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">JSTOR</a>.</div>
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In a statement following his death, Swartz’s parents criticized the Massachusetts U.S. attorney’s office for pursuing charges against their son, and MIT for failing to support him. [NOTE: see also <a href="http://business.time.com/2013/01/14/mit-orders-review-of-aaron-swartz-suicide-as-soul-searching-begins/" style="color: #5288cb; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank"><em>Time</em> | Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Prompts MIT Soul-Searching.</a>]</div>
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Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-75761394644389515842012-12-30T12:47:00.004+00:002013-01-07T16:13:13.239+00:00MBE for WWII Bletchley Park codebreaker Captain Jerry Roberts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Congratulations to codebreaker <b>Captain Jerry Roberts </b>recipient of an <b>MBE </b>in the New Year's Honours List.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In the picture above<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0;">: (left) <b>Lord Charles Brocket</b>, author of the bestseller Call Me Charlie </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">(back row left to right) Professor <a href="http://www.saps.canterbury.ac.nz/phil/people/copeland.shtml" target="_blank"><b>Jack Copeland</b></a>, Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, Dr<b> David Link</b>, artist and media archaeologist, <b>Iain Standen</b>, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, <b><a href="http://www.math.ias.edu/avi/" target="_blank">Avi Wigderson</a></b>, the Herbert Maass Professor of Mathematics at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, (front row left to right) <b>Captain and Mrs Jerry Roberts</b>, senior linguist and cryptographer at Bletchley Park during WW2, <b>Margaret Boden</b> OBE, research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, <a href="http://reading.academia.edu/HumaShah" target="_blank"><b>Huma Shah</b></a>, lead scientist for the University of Reaching's Turing 100 event, <a href="http://cisac.stanford.edu/people/whitfielddiffie/" target="_blank"><b>Whitfield Diffie</b></a>, co-inventor of public key cryptography, <b><a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/martin_campbell-kelly/" target="_blank">Martin Campbell-Kelly</a></b>, Britain's leading computer historian, and <b><a href="http://www.jharper.demon.co.uk/bombe1.htm" target="_blank">John Harper</a></b>, who leads the Turing Bombe rebuild project at Bletchley Park.</span></blockquote>
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Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-15081631109610043522012-12-21T22:39:00.000+00:002012-12-29T22:14:22.710+00:00Explaining the Turing test: audioboo from Turing Education Day, Bletchley Park: 30 June 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thank you to <a href="http://about.me/mcfontaine" target="_blank"><b>Mark Cotton</b></a> (audio engineer, musician and creator), Producer of the Bletchley Park podcasts, for this.<br />
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Professor <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/" target="_blank"><b>Kevin Warwick</b></a> and Dr. <a href="http://reading.academia.edu/HumaShah" target="_blank">Huma Shah</a> explained the Turing test to a packed <b>Bletchley Park</b> audience for <a href="http://miltonkeynes.com/turing-education-day.html" target="_blank"><b>Turing Education Day</b></a>, part of international <a href="http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/" target="_blank"><b>Alan Turing Year</b> 2012</a>, hear the podcast here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm" target="_blank"><b>Turing100 at Bletchley Park</b></a> Judge,<b> Alessandro Bosetti</b>'s radio programme on his experience can be found at WDR 3 <a href="http://www.wdr3.de/hoerspielundfeature/luegendetektor100.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<strong>In 1950, the British mathematician Alan Turing before a test to define artificial intelligence. In this test, a person should differ by question and answer an intelligent machine of a man. WDR3.de offers the feature to download.</strong></div>
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The "Ghost in the machine" has now learned a lot. Computers can measure human responses and simulate voices, emotions or even humor. Voice recognition devices are capable of sensing micro-vibrations in our voice. Search engines have learned to filter out irregularities in our language. Since then lie has become more difficult. We need in the future, always tell the truth? Or there is the perfect lie?</div>
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<b><span class="">Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan in 1973, lives in Berlin since 2000, where he worked as a radio writer, composer and sound artist. </span>His main interest is the language. </b><span class=""><b>His radio play "America's Children" was honored in 2010 with the URTI Radio Grand Prix</b>."</span></div>
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Transcript of the programme, with comments from <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/index.asp" target="_blank">Cyberneticist and Professor, <b>Kevin Warwick</b></a>, Turing100 at Bletchley Park lead scientist <a href="http://reading.academia.edu/HumaShah" target="_blank"><b>Huma Shah</b></a> and <b> <a href="http://www.elbot.com/" target="_blank">Elbot</a></b> developer <b>Fred Roberts</b>, can be found <a href="http://www.wdr3.de/hoerspielundfeature/luegendetektor102.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-62870912762819415512012-09-07T21:27:00.001+01:002012-11-20T17:33:53.211+00:00Guest Post: John Hex Carter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Guest post by</span> <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hexwarrior/alan-a-book-about-what-it-means-to-exist" target="_blank">John Hex Carter</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, author of new</span> Alan Turing<span style="font-weight: normal;"> book: '</span><i>What it means to Exis</i><span style="font-weight: normal;">t':</span></span></b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />In Florida, there is a book being written called <i>Alan</i>. With the subheading of “a book about what it means to exist,” <i>Alan</i> is about the first artificially intelligent entity as it evolves from a command prompt to a fully autonomous robot. The story follows the little robot, named Alan, as it strives to find out where it belongs in this great big world. Not to give it away, but, as you can probably guess, the book ends with little Alan actually having the Turing Test done upon it. Talking about Alan Turing, the test, artificial intelligence, and existentialism, <i>Alan</i> is meant to be a book that’ll entertain, educate, and provoke thought.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If this is something you’d like to pick up, it’s unfortunately not available for purchase yet, but the author, John Hex Carter, is orchestrating a Kickstarter to self-publish the book. He has made the first three chapters available </span><a href="https://github.com/hexWarrior/ArtificialAlan/blob/master/Alan%20-%20Early%20Press%20Copy%20-%208-20-2012.pdf" target="_blank">here<span style="font-weight: normal;">, if you’d like a sneak peek</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The project has already made its modest goal of $500 within five hours of launching the project and fifteen days after launch, it had broken $2000. Carter is still looking for more support. If the project breaks $3000, a regional book tour will be coordinated early next year to promote the book. All details can be found on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hexwarrior/alan-a-book-about-what-it-means-to-exist" target="_blank">the Kickstarter page</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hexwarrior/alan-a-book-about-what-it-means-to-exist/widget/video.html" width="480"> </iframe></span></span></div>
Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-53280328489980326822012-08-17T22:18:00.002+01:002012-08-23T14:08:51.828+01:00Best Child Turing Test Judge 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://hackit.me.uk/" target="_blank">Chris Chapman</a>, Best Child Turing test Judge in <b><a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm" target="_blank">Reading University</a>'s <a href="http://turing100.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/one-month-to-biggest-turing-test.html" target="_blank">Turing test contest</a></b> (held on the 100th anniversary of <a href="http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/" target="_blank"><b>Alan Turing</b></a>'s birth, 23 June 2012 at <a href="http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/" target="_blank">Bletchley Park</a>), visited <a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/sse/" target="_blank">Systems Engineering</a> Friday 17 August 2012 to pick up his prize: <b><a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi computer</a>.</b><br />
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[Above two pictures courtesy of Rona Cheeseman, Research Communications Manager, University of Reading: <a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR461470.aspx" target="_blank">Teenager finds computer test easy PC!</a>]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Head of School, Dr. Ben Cosh (left); Professor Warwick standing with Chris Chapman, winner of Best Child Turing Test Judge (in Reading University's Bletchley Park contest: 23 June 2012)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rona Cheesman (left); Chris Chapman; Mrs Alison Chapman; Reading University's Vice Chancellor, Sir David Bell; Andrew Chapman (reading book); Lesley Lord; Nellie Round; Dr. Faustina Hwang (talking with) Dr. James Ferryman</td></tr>
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Hear <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bell_(university_administrator)" target="_blank"><b>Sir David Bell</b></a> on <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lv7yz" target="_blank">BBC Radio 4's Any Questions</a> </b>from Saturday 18 August 2012(from Bourne End, Buckinghamshire) with Shaun Ley chair and panellists including <a href="http://www.susangreenfield.com/" target="_blank">Baroness Susan Greenfield</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lv7yz" target="_blank">here</a>:<br />
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Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-56115092195438562692012-08-08T10:59:00.001+01:002012-08-08T11:00:33.059+01:00Guest Post: Maths Teacher David Vaccaro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Turing100 guest poster David Vaccaro, Maths and Computer Science Teacher writes:<br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“It was a an enormous pleasure to be part of the Turing 100 celebrations at Bletchley Park on the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Turing’s Birth- and I don’t think that I could have conceived of a better way to mark the event than to be part of the Turing Test itself. Myself and five other volunteers were the hidden humans in one of the sessions (of six rounds) of the Turing Test and it was our job to just be ourselves and to be as human as possible. It was fascinating to see the different strategies employed by the judges to try and test our human credentials- questions about music and films were the most common though my favourite was the judge who sent the number 8008135 to see if I understood the “Boobies” reference.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Apart from the day itself I feel privileged to have been part of the Reading University study because I feel excited to be at the start of a genuine move to integrating Computer Science into schools. I teach at Sevenoaks School in Kent and in common with many other Independent Schools despite the myriad of extra-curricular and co-curricular options for the students- sports, martial arts, Mandarin, orchestras and choirs to name but a few, programming and computing is almost entirely absent. We were thrilled to receive Professor Warwick as a visiting speaker during our Science Week and there can have been no better advert for what is possible with modern technology- and what a contrast from the fusty ICT lessons on Excel and Mail Merge. As expected robotics and the prospect of human enhancement caught the imagination of the students including many who despite their smart phones and snazzy calculators had probably never thought about what went on inside these black boxes.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I left Bletchley at the end of the day with a long awaited RaspberryPi machine and when I have finished playing with it at the end of the summer holidays I look forward to seeing it in use with our students. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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</div>Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-5091016998092213022012-07-01T09:46:00.002+01:002012-07-01T10:18:29.728+01:00Videos and Pictures from Turing Education Day, Bletchley Park 30 June 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Bletchley Park's Turing Education Day.</b><br />
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Opening ceremony video: <a href="http://www.lordbrocket.com/home" target="_blank"><b>Lord Charles Brocket</b></a><br />
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Video from start of <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/" target="_blank"><b>Professor Kevin Warwick</b></a> and <a href="http://reading.academia.edu/HumaShah" target="_blank">Dr. Huma Shah</a>'s presentation on the Turing test:<br />
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Last of the WWII codebreakers <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18555670" target="_blank"><b>Captain Jerry Roberts</b></a><br />
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</div>Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-36959644807977614572012-06-29T12:37:00.002+01:002012-06-29T12:38:36.612+01:00TURING EDUCATION DAY at Bletchley Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Part of the international <a href="http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/" target="_blank"><b>Alan Turing Year</b></a><b> </b>celebrations <a href="http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/resources/file.rhtm/662542/ted+programme+-+low+res.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Turing Education Day</b></a> at<b> </b><a href="http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Bletchley Park</b></a> 30 June 2012 has an exceptional programme of Turing-related talks:<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">'Turing's
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'Aces High: Building Turing's Universal Machine' Martin Campbell-Kelly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Avi Wigderson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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'Breaking the German Codes at Bletchley Park'
Jack Copeland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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'Rebuilding Turing's Machines: Bombe and Delilah' John Harper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The best adult and the best child judge in <a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Reading University</a>'s <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm" target="_blank">Turing test</a> contest, on the<a href="http://turing100.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/vladimir-veselov-wins-colonnade-trophy.html" target="_blank">100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth </a>Saturday 23 June at Bletchley Park, achieved 100% deception-detection rate identifying all the machines and recognising the hidden humans.<br />
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Matthew Round will receive Reading University's 'Best Judge' trophy.<br />
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Chris Chapman will receive a <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi computer</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">POPSCI: <a href="https://db3prd0104.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=tmkp3ch3ZkyEpbX75w7ER85mIsbTKM8I8ZjM585r5rNxPZO5moaAnx3SRcZBTarMFx70w3QCVGI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.popsci.com%2ftechnology%2farticle%2f2012-06%2fchatbot-posing-13-year-old-wins-largest-ever-turing-test" target="_blank">http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-06/chatbot-posing-13-year-old-wins-largest-ever-turing-test</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Huffington Post: <a href="https://db3prd0104.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=tmkp3ch3ZkyEpbX75w7ER85mIsbTKM8I8ZjM585r5rNxPZO5moaAnx3SRcZBTarMFx70w3QCVGI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2f2012%2f06%2f27%2feugene-goostman-2012-turing-test-winner_n_1630412.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/eugene-goostman-2012-turing-test-winner_n_1630412.html</a> [they have their story wrong, 30 judges were not fooled!!!]</span></div>
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Using “Intuition and Ingenuity” – The Turing Centenary and the Arts</span></strong><br />
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On 23rd June, members of the Turing Centenary Arts and Culture Subcommittee alongside around 100 other lucky people, celebrated the Turing Centenary Day by cruising up the Thames in the <a href="http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/Dorkboat12" target="_blank">'Dorkboat'</a> in Turing themed fancy dress, with talks by ‘people doing strange things with electricity’ and by myself Anna Dumitriu (Turing Centenary Arts and Culture Subcommittee co-chair) to <a href="http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/international-festival-of-digital-art-2012.aspx" target="_blank">Watermans Gallery</a> near Kew, where there were more performances, culminating in a 10 minute performance in our specially commissioned Sound Portrait of Alan Turing by Martin A Smith http://www.martinasmith.co.uk/ accompanied by a VJ performance by Alex May, as well as the cutting and eating of the a wonderful Turing Centenary celebration cake.<br />
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The Sound Portrait used music, found sounds and sound collage. It also featured contributions from Professor <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Warwick</a>, Professor Ernest Edmonds, quotations from Alan Turing and poetry from Hallie, aged fifteen from Manchester. The soundscape was generated from Turing Patterns using image to sound software and incorporates recordings of the Bombe, the Second World War and elements from Snow White, a story that meant so much to Alan Turing. The artist’s intent, as in a conventional painted portrait or photograph, was to represent aspects Turing’s character, life and work but in this case by using the medium of sound. <br />
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Artist and VJ Alex May created a beautiful, poignent live, improvised <a href="https://vimeo.com/44767144" target="_blank">video mix</a> to visually interpret Martin’s sound portrait using his own custom software called <a href="http://www.bigfug.com/software/" target="_blank">PatchBox</a>.<br />
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And then we consumed that cake, probably the best cake you will ever see (Turing themed of course), created by <b>Pink Rose Cakes</b> in Brighton. It comprised of a perfectly detailed Enigma Machine, with a little Alan Turing and a tiny apple. Pictures of the cake have been going viral on the web ever since!<br />
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But of course this is just a tiny part of the Arts and Culture Subcommittee’s activities for the Centenary. Myself, Nick Lambert (my co-chair) and Sue Gollifer have put together a touring art exhibition entitled “Intuition and Ingenuity” which features work by artists who are strongly inspired by Turing’s life and ideas. It features several new commissions and includes work by Roman Verostko, boredomresearch, Patrick Tresset, Paul Brown, Ernest Edmonds, Gordana Novakovic, William Latham, Greg Garvey, Trope Troupe, Martin A Smith, Sue Gollifer, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May. It’s already been exhibited at Kinetica Art Fair in London, Lighthouse Gallery in Brighton (as part of Brighton Science Festival) and Lovebytes Digital Art Festival in Sheffield, and now it’s continuing to tour for the rest of the year. It’s supported by The Arts Council England, The University of Hertfordshire and The Computer Arts Society. You can find out more about the exhibition and forthcoming venues as well as order the exhibition catalogue via our <a href="http://www.turingcentenaryarts.eu/" target="_blank">website</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/" target="_blank">Artists Talks Event</a>: Tuesday 3rd July 10:30am - with <a href="http://www.annadumitriu.co.uk/" target="_blank">Anna Dumitriu</a> and <a href="http://www.bigfug.com/" target="_blank">Alex May</a> “Intuition and Ingenuity: Artistic Responses to Turing” as part of the AISB Conference, see conference schedule for location (for conference delegates only).</div>
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<a href="http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/eae/index1.html" target="_blank">Ernest Edmonds</a> will also be speaking on Friday 6th July as part of the <a href="http://turing.une.edu.au/~turingarts2012/" target="_blank">Turing Arts Symposium</a> (for conference delegates only).</div>
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<br /></div>Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-50299766415150790182012-06-25T22:52:00.003+01:002014-03-27T08:50:58.599+00:00New Scientist article on Reading University's Turing test contest: 23 June 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Article on <b>Vladimir Veselov</b> & team's win, by one of the 30 judges in the contest, <b>Celeste Biever</b> in the <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/06/bot-with-boyish-personality-wi.html" target="_blank"><b>New Scientist</b></a>:<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"Eugene Goostman, a chatbot imbued with the personality of a 13 year old boy, won the biggest Turing test ever staged, on 23 June, the 100th anniversary of the birth of </span><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/special/alan-turing" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="ns">Alan Turing</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">.</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">A veteran of the Loebner prize and the </span><a href="http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="ns">Chatterbox challenge </a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">, Eugene was due a win. "We took second place several times but never were we the winners," says Veselov.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Did having a personality give him an advantage? "I think any appearance of a particular personality is likely to have a persuasive effect on judges," says </span><a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="ns">John Barnden</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">, an AI researcher specialising in machine understanding of metaphor at the University of Birmingham, UK, and a fellow judge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">He cautions against concluding that this was Eugene's edge, however - for that you would have to compare two versions of the same bot, but in one case with personality suppressed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"In my own case it's not so much personality in the abstract that's key as how the system responds to a comment - is the response relevant and non-vacuous?" he adds.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I can sympathise with that: in some cases I knew it was a machine because the entity didn't seem to follow the sense of the conversation. I was however, delighted by how funny, and zany some of the conversations with beings that I labelled as bots (Disclaimer: the best judge award is still to be awarded so I don't actually know how often I was right). They also forced me to consider in a new way, just what it is that makes humans human."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp" target="_blank"><b>Eugene Goostman</b></a> famously deceived Times newspaper journalist <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/sitesearch.do?querystring=Man+Takes+on+Machines+in+Mass+Test+Will+Pavia&p=tto&pf=all&bl=on" target="_blank">Will Pavia</a> in <a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/research/highlights-news/featuresnews/res-featureloebner.aspx" target="_blank">Reading University</a>'s staging of the <a href="http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/2008_Contest/loebner-prize-2008.html" target="_blank">18th Loebner Prize</a> in 2008: "</span><a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/technology/article1859084.ece" style="background-color: white; color: black; text-decoration: none;">Machine takes on man at mass Turing Test</a><span style="background-color: white;">" <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/sitesearch.do?querystring=Man+Takes+on+Machines+in+Mass+Test+Will+Pavia&p=tto&pf=all&bl=on" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-18036685856905775192012-06-25T00:34:00.002+01:002012-06-25T00:34:45.552+01:00Guest Post: Hidden human Matt Whitby from Reading University's 23 June 2012 Turing tests at Bletchley Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hidden human H26 <a href="http://matt-whitby.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Matt Whitby</b></a> writes of his experience in <a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Reading University</a>'s <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm" target="_blank">Turing test contest</a> on the 100th anniversary of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17662585" target="_blank">Alan Turing</a>'s birth, 23 June 2012 at <a href="http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/" target="_blank">Bletchley Park</a>:<br />
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<b>"Turing 100.</b>Alan Turing is one of those people of whom my first introduction has<br />become lost in memory. I do however remember that my first visit to<br />Bletchley Park would have been before my son was born which would put<br />it at over fifteen years ago and I distinctly remember being excited at<br />seeing the room Turing worked in (albeit from the outside).</blockquote>
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Whilst being a complete layperson I’ve always had a fascination with<br />Artificial Intelligence and have had entering the Loebner Contest on my<br />bucket list for over a decade I saw on Twitter that Reading University was holding a Turing Test at Bletchley Park to celebrate Turing’s 100th anniversary. I tweeted back that it sounded really interesting and I’d do my best to come along. Almost<br />immediately I got a reply saying there was a place free for being a human in<br />the upcoming tests if I was free. Well, who would turn down such an<br />offer?</blockquote>
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So early on Saturday morning I drove from Berkshire up to Bletchley Park<br />to take a small part in the test. It would, I thought be fun and would also<br />potentially give me a better insight into the competition in the event that I<br />did actually try and enter one day.</blockquote>
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I was session four of five and wasn’t due to sit down at a terminal until 1:45<br />and it was only 9:30 but that was fine because their room was full of super<br />smart people (well, it’s all relative but they all seemed super smart to me).<br />There was always someone interesting to talk to. I hung round developers<br />most of the time but rarely with people who try and give computers the<br />ability to read a person’s lips, or provide power sources for robots, or<br />wireless electricity, make swarms of autonomous self-driving cars or talk<br />about multi-dimensional space.</blockquote>
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After coming back from looking at the Bombe (an electromechanical device<br />used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machineencrypted<br />signals during World War II.) I eagerly sat down for my session.<br />There were three groups: humans, judges and bots. The judges – as you<br />would expect – have conversations with both the humans and bots and try<br />and differentiate between the two. Turing said (and I’m paraphrasing to<br />bear with me) that if someone could converse with something on a<br />terminal and be unable to distinguish whether it was a human or a piece of<br />software then the thing they were communicating with could be said to be<br />exhibiting intelligent behaviour.</blockquote>
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Five developers were pitting their bots against each other; Rollo Carpenter,<br />Robby Garner, Robert Medeksza, Fred Roberts and Vladimir Veselov.<br />In each slot the humans spoke to five judges for five minutes each. The<br />judges always initiated the conversation and only one entry could be<br />submitted before receiving a response and allowing you to continue with<br />your next submission. Whether it was due to the slow typing of the judges<br />or whether the system was deliberately slowing the responses down so the<br />judges couldn’t tell – by speed of response – between bot or human I<br />wasn’t sure. In the first round I only got about three responses in before<br />the screen disappeared which seemed like a pretty small sample of<br />conversation with which the judge could determine whether it was human<br />or bot.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfVPjQq-CA" target="_blank">Dr. Vladimir Veselov</a> wins 'The Colonnade' trophy for winning machine awarded by Alan Turing's birthplace, <a href="http://www.theetoncollection.co.uk/content.aspx?pageID=420" target="_blank">The Colonnade Hotel London</a> in <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm" target="_blank">Reading University</a>'s biggest Turing test contest <span style="background-color: white;">at Bletchley Park</span><span style="background-color: white;">, 23 June 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Congratulations to all five elite developers </span><span style="background-color: white;">invited to the contest, <a href="http://cleverbot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Rollo Carpenter</b></a></span><span style="background-color: white;">, <b>Robby Garner</b>, <a href="http://www.zabaware.com/?gclid=CLyu3duM9LACFRIjfAodlBo1NA" target="_blank"><b>Robert Medeksza</b></a>, <b><a href="http://www.elbot.com/" target="_blank">Fred Roberts</a> </b>and well done to <a href="http://www.princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp" target="_blank"><b>Vladimir</b></a>'s <a href="http://www.princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp" target="_blank"><i><b>Eugene Goostman</b></i></a> team:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tomorrow, <b>Saturday 23 June 2012</b> is the <b>100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth</b> and major events are taking place around the globe: in Austin, USA; Bangalore and in Kolkota; India; <span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Daejeon, South Korea; </span><span style="background-color: white;">Manchester, UK; Manhatten, NY USA, in Milan, Italy, and the <span style="color: red;">University of Reading's biggest Turing test contest at Bletchley Park</span>!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">See <a href="http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13" target="_blank">here</a> for overview of international ALAN TURING YEAR events:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.pwc.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>PwC UK</b></a>'s coders <b>Jay Abbot</b>t and <b>Senad Zukic</b> have created a cypher to "<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">raise awareness of cyber-learning opportunities and careers." in honour of <b>Alan Turing</b> in his centenary year.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Reading University</a> Cybernetics Professor <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Warwick</a>,<span style="background-color: white;"> Chair of the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/sse/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">School of Systems Engineering</a><span style="background-color: white;">'s <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm" target="_blank">Turing100</a> project writes:</span><br />
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"The Turing Test not only asks questions about machine communication, machine consciousness and how a machine thinks - it also causes us to ask important questions about human communication, human consciousness and how a human thinks. The test is merely a challenge that causes us to compare the two - from a human perspective.<br />
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As a result it leads to another interesting feature and that is - how human interogators can be easily fooled not only by other humans but by machines. Even after an interogator has been so fooled it is then difficult to persuade them that they have been. It was Mark Twain who said "It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled".<br />
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Perhaps the most important point here however is that people tend to over-value humans and how they communicate. The test considers a comparison between machines and ALL humans - however many humans have little of importance to utter and even then they make many mistakes when they do so - as Agatha Christie put it "Man is an unimaginative animal".<br />
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The largest set of Turing Tests ever, at Bletchley Park on June 23rd, will give us an insight into how far the best machines have come. But maybe they will tell us even more about ourselves as humans than they do about their own individuality."</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc/" target="_blank">Professor S. Barry Cooper</a> Chair of the <a href="http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/" target="_blank">Alan Turing Centenary Year</a> writes a guest post for this blog:</div>
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"<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The Alan Turing Year has turned out to be beyond anything people expected,</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">even two years ago. All over the world there are people for whom Alan</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Turing means something very special. It turns out there are</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Turing-followers in unexpected places like Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong ...</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">high school students in Beijing, computer scientists in Kolkata,</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">philosophers in Manila. More and more it is obvious that it is the meaning</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">of Turing's life and science for us now, and the vitality of his thinking</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">about how the world works, that carries such a burden of very personal</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">significance for so many of us.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Last night I was at the premier of Patrick Sammon's "editor's cut" of his</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"Codebreaker" film (showed last November on Channel 4). Bob Lubarsky, gay</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">mathematician extraordinaire was speaking first, and it was a real</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">kaleidoscope of takes on being a gay scientist. I liked the lightly ironic</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">play on Alan Turing's 'crime' as a victimless one. No, he said there was a</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">victim - Alan himself. And then he quoted that oft repeated description of</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"the law as it was at the time" - which made the crime - the one against</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Alan Turing - a "perpetratorless crime".</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">After fulfilling my promise to Bob to go to his talk, I meant to be off</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">back to work (working until the early hours most nights on Alan's</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">centenary year), but was immediately gripped by the Patrick Sammon film</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">before I could get to the door, and intrigued to see what other material</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">he'd included in the new version. It was great, and a must-see for anyone</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">cares about Turing and his science. But I still wanted to see more</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">lesser-known people. For instance, such unique Manchester figures as:</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Bernard Richards who was Alan Turing's MSc student in the years before</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Alan's death, and speaks so interestingly on the emergence of patterns in</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">nature, and tells such interesting stories of Alan's foibles and genius -</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Bernard was in the audience that evening, maybe hoping to see his</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">interview validated on film before catching his train back to Manchester;</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">and Alan Edwards, who used to visit the same gay haunts of Manchester as</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Alan Turing, and can really relate what it was like to be gay in a big</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">northern city in the early 1950s - and they do have him on film. I was at</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">school at that time, on the south coast, but know in a way younger people</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">can't easily what a foreign country the past is. No huge Gay Pride marches</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">in the Manchester of those days.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Whenever I think about Alan's drive to explore the limits of</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">computability, I can't help thinking about how real-world incomputability</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">catches us all out, and certainly did Alan Turing in his final years. How</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">he was fascinated with human thinking and what nature is doing, and how</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">there is still so much left for us to try and make sense of - in fact, he</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">did say something like that: "We can only see a short distance ahead, but</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">we can see plenty there that needs to be done." As we grapple with</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">problems in science and in life, we often find Turing's been there before </span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">us."</span></blockquote>
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Article in <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9335422/Alan-Turing-the-free-thinker-who-programmed-our-world.html" target="_blank">The Telegraph</a> points <a href="http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/" target="_blank">Alan Turing</a> the genius and original thinker who "<span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">refused to allow himself to be compartmentalised in any way, professionally or personally. This extraordinary mind roamed anywhere that took its interest."</span><br />
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Read more <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9335422/Alan-Turing-the-free-thinker-who-programmed-our-world.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/press_and_media/press_releases/2012/02/Codebreaker_Turing.aspx" target="_blank">Science Museum London's</a> '<b>Alan Turing Life and Legacy'</b> exhibition opens Thursday June 21 for one year with free admission. Information on opening times and how to get to the Museum <a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/gettinghere.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[Turing statue picture taken at University of Surrey by Adrian Ogden, ITNG Reading University]</span></div>Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-37799164515658720652012-06-16T20:58:00.003+01:002012-06-17T08:21:08.387+01:00One week to Alan Turing's 100th birthday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One week to go to the biggest <b>Turing test contest</b> <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm" target="_blank"><b>honouring Alan Turing</b></a> at <a href="http://www.london2012.com/join-in/whats-on/event=9000965717/index.htmx" target="_blank">Bletchley Park</a> on the anniversary <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/alan-turing-and-his-machines--fresh-insights-into-the-enigma-7847660.html" target="_blank">of his birth: <b>Saturday 23 June</b></a>.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/alan-turing-and-his-machines--fresh-insights-into-the-enigma-7847660.html" target="_blank"><b>The Independent</b></a>:<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Alan Turing, the brilliant, maverick mathematician, widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, invented an electromagnetic machine called the 'bombe' which formed the basis for deciphering Germany’s Enigma codes.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The man himself has rather eluded definition: painted (too easily) as a nutty professor with a squeaky voice; as a quirky, haphazard character with a sloppy appearance by his mother and schoolmasters; by colleagues as a gruff, socially awkward man; and by his friends as an open-hearted, generous and gentle soul.</span></blockquote>
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Read more <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/alan-turing-and-his-machines--fresh-insights-into-the-enigma-7847660.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ALAN TURING AND THE "EASY" AND
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Université du Québec à Montréal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alan Turing made countless invaluable and
eternal contributions to knowledge -- the computer, computation, limits of
provability, neural nets, the Turing test, breaking the Enigma code that helped
save the world from Nazi tyranny -- before cruel injustice and ingratitude
ended his short life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to enlarge on just one thread in
all he has done: The Turing Test set the agenda for what later came to be
called "cognitive science" -- the reverse-engineering of the capacity
of humans (and other animals) to think.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is thinking? It is not something we
can observe. It goes on in our heads. We do it, but we don't know how we do it.
We are waiting for cognitive science to explain to us how we -- or rather our
brains -- do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">What we can observe is what we do, and
what we are capable of doing. Turing's contribution was to make it quite
explicit that our goal should be to explain how we can do what we can do by
designing a model that can do what we can do, and to do it so well that we
cannot tell the model apart from one of us, based only on what it does and can
do. The causal mechanism that generates the model's doing-capacity will be the
explanation of thinking, intelligence, understanding, knowledge -- all just
examples of, or synonyms for: cognition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turing actually formulated (what
eventually came to be called) the Turing Test (TT) somewhat differently. He
called it the "Imitation Game," and in order to rule out any bias
that might influence our judgment because of the way the TT candidate looked --
rather than just what it could do -- the test was to be purely verbal, via the
exchange of written messages, with the candidate out of sight. Today we would
say that the test had to be conducted via email: Design a system that can
communicate by email, as a pen-pal, indistinguishably from a human, to a human,
and you have explained cognition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Questions arise: (1) Communicate about
what? (2) how long? (3) with how many humans?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answers, of course, are: (1)
Communicate about anything that any human can communicate about verbally via
email, (2) for a lifetime, and (3) with
as many people as any human is able to communicate with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a tall order, and it still leaves
open the fourth question: (4) How? The answer, of course, will be to design the
winning model, and cognitive science is nowhere near being able to do that, but
there is a sub-question about what kind of system the winning model will be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many people have assumed that Turing had
meant and expected the TT-passer to be a purely computational system.
Computation, as Turing taught us, is the manipulation of symbols (e.g., 0's and
1's, but they could also be words) on the basis of purely formal rules that
operate only on the shapes of the symbols, not their meaning (i.e., syntax, not
semantics). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">An example of such a formal, shape-based
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">You don't need to know what "1"
or "+" means in order to follow that rule. You just need to know what
to do with the shapes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's computation. And that's basically
what a "Turing Machine" (the abstract precursor of the computer)
does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">But did Turing really mean that he
thought cognition would turn out to be just computation? The
"computationalists" among contemporary cognitive scientists think
cognition is just computation, but I don't think Turing did. The Turing Test as
he described it was just an email pen-pal test: only symbols in and symbols
out. That does leave the possibility that the only thing needed in between, to
successfully pass the test, is symbol-manipulation (computation).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the philosopher, John Searle showed,
with his famous "Chinese Room" thought-experiment, that this cannot
be true: cognition cannot be just computation. For if just a computer program
were enough to pass the Turing Test, Searle himself could show that that would
not generate understanding in the system that was passing the Turing Test: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Searle asks us to suppose that the Turing
Test (TT) is conducted in Chinese (Chinese email, with real Chinese pen-pals).
Now since computation is just rules for manipulating symbols based on their
shapes, not their meanings, Searle himself could memorize and execute that same
TT-passing computer program, yet he would not be understanding Chinese. But
then neither would the computer that was executing the TT-passing program.
Hence cognition is not just computation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is missing to make symbols
meaningful, the way words and thoughts are meaningful to us? I've dubbed this
the "symbol grounding problem": Consider a Chinese-Chinese
dictionary. It defines all the words in Chinese. But if you don't already know
at least the meaning of some Chinese words, the definitions of the meaningless
symbols only lead to more meaningless symbols, not to meaning. Some of the
symbols, at least, have to be "grounded" in what the symbols denote
directly, rather than just via meaningless, formal verbal definitions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consider the symbol string "'zebra'
= 'horse' + 'stripes'." To be able to understand that definition, you have
to already know what "horse" and "stripes" mean. And that
can't go on via just definitions all the way down ("stripes" =
"horizontal" + "lines," etc.). Some words have to be
grounded directly in our capacity to recognize, categorize, manipulate, name
and describe the things in the world that the words denote. This goes beyond
mere computation, which is just formal symbol manipulation, to sensorimotor
dynamics, in other words, not just verbal capacity but robotic capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I do not believe that Turing was a
computationalist: he did not think that thinking was just computation. He was
perfectly aware of the possibility that in order to be able to pass the verbal
TT (only symbols in and symbols out) the candidate system would have to be a
sensorimotor robot, capable of doing a lot more than the verbal TT tests
directly, and drawing on those dynamic capacities in order to successful pass
the verbal TT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">But although Turing was not a
computationalist about cognition, he was nevertheless a computationalist in the
more general sense that he believed that just about any physical, dynamical
structure or process (including planetary motion, chemical reactions, and
robotic sensorimotor dynamics) could be simulated and approximated by
computation as closely as we like. This is called the physical version of the
"Church-Turing" Thesis (CT). (The mathematical version of CT is the
thesis that Turing's formal definition of computation -- the Turing Machine --
can do anything and everything that mathematicians do when they
"compute" something.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The physical CT does not imply, however,
that everything in the physical world is just computation, because everyone
knows that a computer simulation of (say) a plane, is not a plane, flying (even
if it can simulate flying well enough to help test and design plane prototypes computationally,
without having to build and test them physically, and even if the computation
can generate a virtual reality simulation that the human senses cannot
distinguish from the real thing -- till they take off their goggles and
gloves).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Searle is simply pointing out that the
same is true of computational simulations of verbal cognition: If they can be
done purely computationally, that does not mean that the computations are
cognizing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Computations cognizing? What on earth
does that mean? Well, to answer that question, we have to turn to another
philosopher: Descartes. How does Searle know that he is not understanding
Chinese when he is passing the Chinese TT by memorizing and executing the
TT-passing computer program? It is because it feels like something to
understand Chinese. And the only one who knows for sure whether that feeling
(or any feeling at all) is going on is the cognizer -- who is in this case
Searle himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The contribution of Descartes' celebrated
"Cogito" is that I can be absolutely certain that I am cognizing when
I am cognizing. I can doubt anything else, including what my cognizing seems to
be telling me about the world, but I can't doubt that I'm cognizing when I'm cognizing.
That would be like doubting I'm feeling a toothache when I am feeling a
toothache: I can doubt whether the pain is coming from my tooth -- it might be
referred pain from my jaw -- I may not even have a tooth, or a mouth, or a
body; there may be no outside world, nor any yesterday or tomorrow. But I
cannot doubt that what it feels like right now is what it feels like right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well Searle is not feeling the
understanding of Chinese when he passes the Chinese TT. He can distinguish real
understanding (as he understands English) from just going through the motions:
just doing the doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">But where does this leave Turing's test,
then, which is based purely on doings and doing-capacity, indistinguishable
from the doing capacity of real, cognizing human beings?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turing was perfectly aware that
generating the capacity to do does not necessarily generate the capacity to
feel. He merely pointed out that explaing doing power was the best we could
ever expect to do, scientifically, if we wished to explain cognition. The
successful TT-passing model may not turn out to be purely computational; it may
be both computational and dynamic; but it is still only generating and
explaining our doing capacity. It may or may not feel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explaining how and why we can do what we
can do has come to be called the "easy" problem of cognitive science
(though it is hardly that easy, since we are nowhere near solving it). The
"hard" problem is explaining how and why we feel -- the problem of
consciousness -- and of course we are even further from solving that one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In commemoration of Turing's 2012
centenary</b> the <b>Cognitive Sciences Institute of Universite du Quebec a Montreal</b>
is hosting a <b>10-day Summer Institute</b> on the <b><a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/TuringEvolutionConsciousness.htm"><span style="color: blue;">Evolution and Function of Consciousness</span></a></b> (plus a 3-day practical workshop on measuring consciousness) from
<b>June 29 to July 12 in Montrea</b>l. Over 50 computer scientists, roboticists,
neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists and philosophers (including <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/TuringEvolutionConsciousness.htm#_edn51" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">John Searle</span></b></a>, <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/TuringEvolutionConsciousness.htm#_edn1" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Dan Dennett</span></b></a>, <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/TuringEvolutionConsciousness.htm#_edn2" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Antonio Damasio</span></b></a>, <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/TuringEvolutionConsciousness.htm#_edn3" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Joseph E. LeDoux</span></b></a> and <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/TuringEvolutionConsciousness.htm#_edn36" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Simon Baron-Cohen</span></b></a>) will
present the current state of the art in the attempt to give a causal
explanation of how and why we feel rather than just do. For those who cannot
attend in person, the videos of most of the talks will be available on the web
as of the day after each presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/TuringEvolutionConsciousness.htm"><b>via this link</b>:</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. (1992) <a href="http://cogprints.org/1584/" target="_blank">The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion</a>. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">SIGART Bulletin 3(4) (October 1992) pp. 9 - 10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. (1994) <a href="http://cogprints.org/1591/" target="_blank">Levels of Functional Equivalence in Reverse Bioengineering: The Darwinian Turing Test for Artificial Life.</a> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artificial Life 1(3): 293-301. Reprinted in: C.G. Langton (Ed.). Artificial Life: An Overview. MIT Press 1995</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. (2000) <a href="http://cogprints.org/1616" target="_blank">Minds, Machines, and Turing: The Indistinguishability of Indistinguishables.</a> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 9(4): 425-445. (special issue on "Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence") </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. (2001) <a href="http://cogprints.org/1622/" target="_blank">Minds, Machines and Searle II: What's Wrong and Right About Searle's Chinese Room Argument?</a> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In: M. Bishop & J. Preston (eds.) Essays on Searle's Chinese Room Argument. Oxford University Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. (2002) <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/darwin.htm" target="_blank">Darwin, Skinner, Turing and the Mind.</a> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (Inaugural Address. Hungarian Academy of Science.) Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle LVII (4) 521-528.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. (2002) <a href="http://cogprints.org/1615/" target="_blank">Turing Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker.</a> I<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">n: J. Fetzer (ed.) Evolving Consciousness Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 3-18. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. and Dror, I. (2006) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12368/" target="_blank">Distributed Cognition: Cognizing, Autonomy and the Turing Test.</a> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pragmatics & Cognition 14.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S; Blondin-Massé; A, St-Louis, B;
Chicoisne, G; Gargouri, Y; & Picard, O.
(2008) <a href="http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/SoCCE/ITALK/events.html" target="_blank">Symbol Grounding, Turing Testing and Robot Talking.</a> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">RoadMap Workshop on Action and Language Integration, Rome on 22-24 September 2008. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. and Scherzer, P. (2008) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14430/" target="_blank">First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling.</a> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 44(2): 83-89</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, S. (2008) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/7741/" target="_blank">The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery and Intelligence.</a> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In: Epstein, Robert & Peters, Grace (Eds.) Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer. Springer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harnad, Stevan (2012) <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273232/" target="_blank">The Causal Topography of Cognition.</a> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">[in special issue: A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition] Journal of Cognitive Science, 13, (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Searle, John R. (1980) <a href="http://cogprints.org/7150/" target="_blank">Minds, brains, and programs.</a> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417-57</span></div>
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</div>Huma Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01334580708628395059noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5309893853096215291.post-82512827877238940422012-06-13T11:42:00.005+01:002012-06-17T08:22:45.019+01:00'The Turing Solution' from BBC Radio 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
BBC Radio 4's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jqjl5/The_Turing_Solution/" target="_blank">The Turing Solution</a> on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jqjl5/The_Turing_Solution/" target="_blank">BBC iPlayer</a> here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01jqjl5/<br />
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<a href="http://www.saps.canterbury.ac.nz/phil/people/copeland.shtml" target="_blank">Professor Jack Copeland interviewed in programme</a> - other details about the show below:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">"Alan Turing, born June 23 1912, is famous for his key role in breaking German codes in World War 2. But for mathematicians, his greatest work was on the invention of the computer.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Alan Turing's brilliance at maths was spectacular. Aged 22, just a year after his graduation, he was elected a fellow of King's College Cambridge. And it was just a year after that, that he turned his attention to problems in the foundations of mathematics and ended up showing that a simple machine, set up to read and write numbers and to run a few basic functions, could in principle do all the things that are do-able in mathematics. His 'universal' machine was just a concept - a paper tape that could be read, interpreted and acted on robotically. But the concept was profound.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">World War II shortly afterwards took Turing's talents into other directions, but even while designing machines at Bletchley Park to break the German Enigma codes, he was wondering how much more a computing machine might do - play chess for example.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">And although the war work might have delayed Turing's academic work, it greatly accelerated progress in electronics, so that in 1945 he returned to his first love, creating a complete design for what he expected to be the world's first fully programmable computer, the National Physical Laboratory's ACE - the Automatic Computing Engine. In the end, beset by hesitation and bureaucratic delays, the ACE was overtaken by a rival team in Manchester, whose Small Scale Experimental Machine first ran on June 21 1948. But the Manchester Baby, as it became known, fulfilled the requirements laid down in Turing's seminal 1936 paper, and in a handful of instructions had the power to do any kind of maths, or data processing, like a computer of today does.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Turing soon joined the Manchester team, and again with remarkable prescience started work on artificial intelligence, wondering whether electronic machines could programmed not just to do maths, but to think in the way human minds do - a hot topic of debate even now.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Those explorations were cut short by his suicide in 1954, following prosecution for his homosexuality. His death at a time when official secrecy still hid his code-breaking work, and when the history of computing was already being written meant that few appreciated his central role in today's dominant industry. But some enthusiasts hope they can write him back in where he belongs.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Presenter, Standup Mathematician Matt Parker." </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">From <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jqjl5/The_Turing_Solution/" target="_blank">here</a> .</span><br />
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