The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

"Can machines think?" That's the core question legendary mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing posed in October, 1950. Turing wanted to assess whether machines could imitate or exhibit ...

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Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.

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Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Turing is best known for his development of the Bombe, a machine that successfully deciphered coded Nazi messages during World War II. The Germans encoded their messages using Enigma machines, which ...