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Chapters: Alan Turing, Victor Gollancz, Bradley Wiggins, Leslie Green, Tony Meehan, Philip Guedalla, Steve Mcfadden, Irene Handl, Terence Fisher, Ernest Clark, Billy Moon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 74. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (pronounced ; 23 June 1912 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was influential in the development of computer science and providing a formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, playing a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE. Towards the end of his life Turing became interested in chemistry. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and he predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the BelousovZhabotinsky reaction, which were first observed in the 1960s. Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that timeand he accepted treatment with female hormones, chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. He died in 1954, several weeks before his 42nd birthday, from an apparently self-administered cyanide poisoning, although his mother (and some others) considered his death ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1208 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 531 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Chapters: Noam Chomsky, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Alan Turing, Linus Torvalds, Ada Lovelace, Blaise Pascal, John Von Neumann, Steve Wozniak, Charles Babbage, Donald Knuth, Claude Shannon, Marvin Minsky, Tim Berners-Lee, Niklaus Wirth, Stephen Cole Kleene, Grace Hopper, Ole-Johan Dahl, C. A. R. Hoare, Douglas Engelbart, George Boole, Robert Noyce, Herbert Simon, Fred Brooks, Seymour Cray, Herman Hollerith, Dennis Ritchie, Vannevar Bush, Thomas J. Watson, Kristen Nygaard, Brian Kernighan, Ted Nelson, David A. Huffman, Kevin Warwick, Edgar F. Codd, Bill Joy, Konrad Zuse, John Backus, Alan Kay, Clive Sinclair, J. Presper Eckert, Peter Naur, Gary Kildall, Jack Tramiel, John Mauchly, Jack Kilby, Max Newman, Jon Postel, Dan Bricklin, Ivan Sutherland, Jay Miner, Butler Lampson, Vint Cerf, Jef Raskin, John Vincent Atanasoff, Christopher J. Date, Joyce K. Reynolds, Chuck Peddle, an Wang, Bob Bemer, Kenneth E. Iverson, Steve Jobs, Richard Stallman, Alan Kotok, Paul Otlet, Thomas Watson, Jr., Federico Faggin, J. C. R. Licklider, Anthony James Barr, Grigore Moisil, Kathleen Antonelli, Herman Goldstine, W. Daniel Hillis, Joel Mccormack, Bob Kahn, Robert Metcalfe, John Mccarthy, Fredrik Rosing Bull, Maurice Wilkes, Arthur Burks, Emanuel Goldberg, Gordon Bell, Heinz Zemanek, Peter Chen, Boston Computer Society, Charles Leonard Hamblin, Ken Thompson, Gene Amdahl, Paul Tseng, Seymour I. Rubinstein, Leonard Kleinrock, Dimitri Bertsekas, Paul Baran, Lawrence Roberts, Jay Wright Forrester, William Goddard, Christopher Strachey, List of Pioneers in Computer Science, Tommy Flowers, Peter Samson, Mary Lee Woods, Ieee Computer Pioneer Award, Andy Bechtolsheim, Tom Lane, Susan Kare, Peter J. Landin, Clifford Berry, John George Kemeny, Richard Karp, Peter J. Bentley, David Parnas, Klaus Samelson, Wes Kussmaul, Donald Davies, Adam Osborne, Andrew Viterbi, Bob O. Evans, Daniel Meyer, Andries Van Dam, George Stibitz, Gordon Moore, Alexander Brudno, William Norr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21566 ... Read more

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What is Thinking?

What is Turings Test? What is Gödels Undecidability Theorem? How is Berners-Lees Semantic Web logic going to overcome paradoxes and complexity to produce machine processing on the Web?

Thinking on the Web draws from the contributions of Tim Berners-Lee (What is solvable on the Web?), Kurt Gödel (What is decidable?), and Alan Turing (What is machine intelligence?) to evaluate how much intelligence can be projected onto the Web.

The authors offer both abstract and practical perspectives to delineate both the opportunities and challenges of a smarter Web through a threaded series of vignettes and a thorough review of Semantic Web development.

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Machine Intelligence presented intelligently


I liked this book. It actually had three distinctive features: First, the general presentation of the pioneers Berners-Lee, Godel and Turing with the key questions they posed was well done. Second, the chapters on ontology engineering, RDF, and OWL were instructive and had good examples. I found the chapters on semantic search and semantic services particularly interesting. Third, the interludes consisted of several pages of debate in-between chapters.

I particularly enjoyed the interludes - these short debates between two fictitious characters crystallized many issues dealing with AI, thinking and intelligence as they emerged from the chapter material. They were presented with humor and high spirits, but the arguments seemed well-founded and balanced. They included amusing backdrops, such as, the characters playing a chess match while discussing the tournament between Gary Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue computer ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 788 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Reviews the history of the discipline and its concepts, and profiles contributors in the field. The impact of computers on society is explored, with examples in literature and film to illustrate and support trends. ... Read more

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As Josh argues with his eccentric co-worker Travis about the prospects of artificial intelligence, he never dreams he will soon get drawn into a battle between a secret society of hackers and a covert government organization for the control of a conscious machine, code-named Janus, that can dominate mankind. He enters into this struggle with the help of Travis' mysterious ex-girlfriend Alex, and quickly finds himself falling for her as they are chased through a hidden world of rebellious programmers determined to change the world for the better. Unknown to them, their moves are meticulously orchestrated by Travis, who is bent on dominating their future and the future of all mankind, forcing Alex to make a choice between her new love and dreams of a new world. Unleashing Janus is a modern tale of mankind's struggle to bring hope back into existence. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 523 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, vol. 2.
Author: Daniel N. Robinson
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1998
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
Volume: v51Issue: n4Page: p919(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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