Alessandro Bosetti, Judge at Turing100, Bletchley Park: The Polygraph

Turing100 at Bletchley Park Judge, Alessandro Bosetti's radio programme on his experience can be found at  WDR 3 here.

From WDR 3:

"The polygraph

Alessandro Bosetti

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.

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Intelligent giant machines

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?

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The manuscript for shipment

• The polygraph. Alessandro Bosetti. (Download PDF: 273.2 KB)

Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan in 1973, lives in Berlin since 2000, where he worked as a radio writer, composer and sound artist. His main interest is the language. His radio play "America's Children" was honored in 2010 with the URTI Radio Grand Prix."

Copied from:   http://www.wdr3.de/hoerspielundfeature/luegendetektor100.html

Transcript of the programme, with comments from Cyberneticist and Professor, Kevin Warwick, Turing100 at Bletchley Park lead scientist Huma Shah and  Elbot developer Fred Roberts, can be found here.

Guest Post: Anna Dumitriu, Co-chair TCAC Arts & Culture Committee

Using “Intuition and Ingenuity” – The Turing Centenary and the Arts

By Anna Dumitriu
Director The Institute of Unnecessary Research 


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 'Dorkboat' 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 Watermans Gallery 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.

The Sound Portrait used music, found sounds and sound collage. It also featured contributions from Professor Kevin Warwick, 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.

Artist and VJ Alex May created a beautiful, poignent live, improvised video mix to visually interpret Martin’s sound portrait using his own custom software called PatchBox.

Picture courtesy of Normal Flora from flickr

And then we consumed that cake, probably the best cake you will ever see (Turing themed of course), created by Pink Rose Cakes 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!

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 website.

The next outing will be 2nd -6th July at the:

The AISB/IACAP World Congress in Birmingham (exhibition open to the public).

Monday 2nd July 2012 5pm - 9pm (drinks reception 7-9pm all welcome)

Open daily Tuesday 3rd - Friday 6th July 2012  12-5:30pm (guided tours available on request at the exhibition)

The West Wing Meeting Room
Centre for Professional Development
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Artists Talks Event:  Tuesday 3rd July 10:30am - with Anna Dumitriu and Alex May “Intuition and Ingenuity: Artistic Responses to Turing” as part of the AISB Conference, see conference schedule for location (for conference delegates only).

Ernest Edmonds will also be speaking on Friday 6th July as part of the Turing Arts Symposium (for conference delegates only).

This event is supported by an AISB as a Public Understanding of Artificial Intelligence activity.

© Anna Dumitriu, June 2012

PwC: Crack the ALAN TURING Cypher

PwC UK's coders Jay Abbott and Senad Zukic have created a cypher to "raise awareness of cyber-learning opportunities and careers." in honour of Alan Turing in his centenary year.


PwC, who are exhibiting in the Turing100 event in the mansion at Bletchley Park on the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, have created the code (see image below) on behalf of the Cyber Security Challenge UK.

[Image from Wired.co.uk]

One week to Alan Turing's 100th birthday

One week to go to the biggest Turing test contest honouring Alan Turing at Bletchley Park on the anniversary of his birth: Saturday 23 June.

From The Independent:

"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.

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.

The crucial contribution Turing made at Bletchley Park, one that has been credited with shortening the war by two years and saving countless lives, did not become public knowledge until twenty years after his death. His mother, brother and friends did not know until long after they’d mourned him, the extent of his heroism.

He was found dead on 7 June 1954, a few weeks before his 42nd birthday, after biting into an apple laced with cyanide. This ‘Snow White’ suicide is particularly resonant given his enjoyment of the 1937 Disney film of the fairy-tale."

Read more here.

[Pictures taken by Huma Shah at Bletchley Park, Friday 15 June 2012]

Turing100 at Bletchley Park in June : Honouring Alan Turing

LOCOG recognise Alan Turing's contribution: the University of Reading's Turing test project has been awarded a London2012 Inspire Mark for Education.

Plan of the main event at Bletchley Park is taking shape - a draft schedule of the day, Saturday 23 June 2012, is below:

Turing100 at BP

5 months to Turing centenary with major events at Bletchley Park, in Cambridge and in Manchester

Alan Turing Centenary Year includes three major events covering Turing's 100th birthday on Saturday 23 June 2012:

Turing100 Turing Tests at Bletchley Park

How the World Computes in Cambridge

Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester



To take part in Turing100 preliminary phase get involved using your computer with Internet access, see here.


To read Kybernetes journal's special issue on the Turing test see here.

Know the net: ways to avoid cybercrime

Knowthenet advice on avoiding cybercrime:



"The term ‘cybercrime’ covers a wide range of activities that are carried out against businesses and individuals using computers and the Internet.

The main activities that affect individuals are:

Computer misuse (including hacking, spam email, Trojans, viruses, botnets etc.)
Financial fraud (including scams, online theft, phishing etc.)
Identity theft and identity fraud
Offences against the person (including cyberbullying, hate crimes, child sexual abuse content)
General tips to help you avoid becoming a victim of cybercrime

Treat all unsolicited emails (especially those from unknown senders) with caution and never click on links from such emails to visit unknown web sites - these could contain links to code that could affect your computer.

Don’t open attachments in emails that you’re not expecting – they could contain a virus or code that would enable someone to control your computer.
Don’t share files or programs with other users.
Don’t use free software unless you know it’s reputable and safe.
Install anti-virus software, keep it up-to-date and run regular security scans.
Install the latest security updates, also known as patches.
Install and learn how to use a personal firewall.

Be careful not to share personal information such as address information, bank details, telephone numbers, date of birth etc. on social networking sites and other websites that do not use encryption to secure the information you publish.

Do not use the same password across multiple websites. Although this makes it more difficult to manage your online accounts it is worth the effort, you can also use password management software and encryption to make this easier."


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Price Waterhouse Cooper support Turing100 in 2012 at Bletchley Park

Thank you to Price Waterhouse Cooper UK who have kindly agreed to become one of the supportors of Turing100.