Turing

Introduction Within the last thirty years, the pioneering British computer scientist and Cambridge academic Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) has undergone an astonishing cultural reappraisal. Turing was never particularly famous during his own lifetime, but his work on cryptography at Bletchley Park, his key 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, and his early digital machines such as the programmable Pilot ACE and his 1947-1954 work at the University of Manchester was unquestionably used and appreciated

appropriate? How or more so who decides what is appropriate? These questions have been asked, debated, and fought over since the dawn of civilization. The rhetor of the movie The Imitation Game integrates these questions into the true story of Alan Turing and the people around him. The rhetor allows these questions of appropriateness to be narrowed down to two very influential people in history to give these large, foundational questions a more personal touch, and for the audience to see the very personal

Graham Moore, depicts the life of the unusual man Alan Turing and his involvement with Allied victory during World War II. The biopic ranging at two hours follows Turing and the sacrifices he willing to make to break Germany’s unbreakable Enigma code during World War II. Turing along with a group of unknown British scholars work desperately day and night under pressure to achieve this victory which ultimately ends in a tragedy. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, but he lived with the insecurity

Introduction Within the last thirty years, the pioneering British computer scientist and Cambridge academic Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) has undergone an astonishing cultural reappraisal. Turing was never particularly famous during his own lifetime, and almost forgotten for two decades after his passing. But his work on cryptography at Bletchley Park, his key 1937 paper On Computable Numbers, and his early digital machines such as the programmable Pilot ACE and his 1947-1954 work at the University

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician and computer scientist, famous for cracking the code the Nazi machine “Enigma” had used. This code was considered by many to have been undecipherable. Turing was born in Maida Vale, London on 23 June 1912. His father was part of a family of merchants from Scotland, and his mother was the daughter of an engineer.At a young age, he displayed signs of particularly high intelligence. Turing was one of the people who worked on the first computers. He was

Alan Mathison Turing was a gay mathematician during World War II whose work is estimated to have shortened the war by two years and saved an estimated 14 to 21 Million lives. He is considered the father of modern computing due to his contributions to the area of study. There is an award as well as a Law and may buildings and statues in his honor. The man was a genius but was lost too soon due to his suicide whilst doing a procedure known as “Chemical Castration” to eliminate his libido due to homosexuality

Alan Turing is a rare figure amongst the many historical worthies of post-war Britain. He would, at first, seem an unlikely candidate to become a popular, globally recognised icon. He worked within a comparatively novel and arcane scientific field, the central concepts of which are still only fully understood by specialists. It was one which emerged from mostly from his own high-level theoretical reasoning and debating the earlier work of (the similarly obscure) Kurt Gödel upon whether mathematical

representationalists believe that machines can think. Like Alan Turing they believe a simple test called the Turing Test will be sufficient to prove consciousness because intelligence is an operational attribute that allows symbol manipulation. (Heil, 115) In this paper I will argue that their claim is bogus, computers could never, in their current state, be classified as a minded. Thus the Turing Test is an invalid test. The Turing Test, created by Alan Turing, tests for intelligence in a systematic way, giving

Alan Turing was born in Paddington, London on June 23, 1912. However, he spent most of the childhood away from his parents, Julius Turing and Ethel Sara Stoney. This time was spent at a boarding school. Beginning at age 14, he began to attend Sherborne School and continued until the age of 19. During his time there, Christopher Morcom, became a close friend of Turing, but died of Bovine Tuberculosis not long after they met. Turing was awarded a scholarship to King's College in Cambridge when

AI is going to become so intelligent that they will be able to recode themselves in order to become sentient - the ability to feel emotions. To determine if a robot (or AI in this case) is sentient, they must undergo a test known as “The Turing Test”. The Turing Test suggests that if the creation is able to identify an object accurately, then they are sentient - alike a human. (Baer 3) There is a