Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers
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Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers
05/16/2004 06:36 AMAlan Turing - Thinking Up Computers By Andy
Reinhardthttp://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_19/b3882029_mz0
72.htmAlan Turing - Thinking Up Computers - The
Cambridge University mathematician laid the foundation for the
invention of software. As part of its anniversary celebration,
BusinessWeek is presenting a
series of weekly profiles for the greatest innovators of the past 75
years.
"Alan Turing"
"Alan Turing"
06/08/2004 08:54 AMAlan Turing Honoured
Alan Turing Honoured
06/07/2004 11:52 PMFree Internet Press Jun 8 2004 3:51AM GMT
Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award
Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award
04/22/2004 10:43 AMManchester honours Alan Turing
Manchester honours Alan Turing
06/07/2004 08:58 AMThe Register Jun 7 2004 12:46PM GMT
Alan Kay wins Turing Award
Alan Kay wins Turing Award
04/26/2004 02:43 PMOne of my heroes wins computer science's top award.
Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software
Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software
05/11/2004 09:16 AMa fitting tribute to alan turing
a fitting tribute to alan turing
06/24/2004 02:49 PMno good mind goes unpunished
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine
08/04/2004 10:03 PMA Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life, extendable to a Universal
Turing Machine
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Other: Turing Cluster
Other: Turing Cluster
02/05/2005 09:01 PM
Virginia Tech was first with a Mac-based supercomputer, but UIUC is
getting into the game, too.
Church-Turing thesis
Church-Turing thesis
06/17/2004 10:14 AM
Be
thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for
such a design. Tanenba
um and
Torvalds discuss the future of kernel design.
Turing Test for Sports
Turing Test for Sports
03/19/2003 10:24 PMSteven Johnson points at EA's
PlayStation(R)2simulation of the 2003
baseball season.
We simulated the season using the PlayStation(R)2 version of MVP
Baseball 2003, which allows you to take control of one team for the
entire campaign (or multiple seasons, in Franchise mode) and try to
guide them to the World Series. Since we wanted the console to do all
the work, we took control of the defending champion Anaheim Angels but
let the computer run each game on its own, so we could get as
objective of a result as possible.
Medio siglo sin Turing
Medio siglo sin Turing
06/07/2004 09:56 PMRethinking the Turing Test
Rethinking the Turing Test
07/11/2004 10:47 PMIn the 1950s, Alan Turing had proposed a metric for machine
intelligence. This metric is currently known as "the Turing Test" and
much work in the field of Aritificial Intelligence (or AI) has been
influenced by this metric. In short, Turing suggested that a machine
that could behave in a manner indistinguishable from a human could be
considered to be "thinking." For many researchers, the goal is simply
to pass the Turing Test. In 1990, the first formal instantiation of
the Turing Test, the Loebner Prize, was introduced. The Grand Prize,
awarded to the first computer able to provide responses
indistinguisable from a human, is a gold medal and $100,000 and has
never been awarded. However, each year $2000 is awarded to the entry
that fares the best. This is ostensibly designed to stimulate research
in the area. I propose that not only does this metric exclude much in
the way of actual thought, it also fails to encourage much in the way
of machine intelligence. I also propose that the Loebner Prize, for
adhering to this metric, puts an incentive on an aspect of AI that
does little to advance machine thought or intelligence, in practice.
Thus a reconsidered and reformed version should be introduced.
Happy 92nd, Turing!
Happy 92nd, Turing!
06/23/2004 12:19 PMToday would have been Alan Turing's 92nd bithday (if he hadn't been
hounded to death by the British authorities who forced hormone
treatments on him to "cure" his gayness). Turing invented modern
computer science and is one of my all-time heros.
Link
(
Thanks, Pat!)
Viebrock.ca: Turing, Now With Audio
Viebrock.ca: Turing, Now With Audio
05/17/2004 09:12 AMJust a quick note from
Colin Viebrock's
weblog this morning:
Turing and Post Machines: C++ Simulators
Turing and Post Machines: C++ Simulators
12/21/2003 01:14 PMUniversal Turing Machine (C++ Simulator) : Release 1.0
Is the Brain Equivalent to a Turing
Machine?
Is the Brain Equivalent to a Turing
Machine?
03/19/2003 10:25 PMFrom the NewScientist.com: "The world's first brain prosthesis - an
artificial hippocampus - is about to be tested in California. Unlike
devices like cochlear implants, which merely stimulate brain activity,
this silicon chip implant will perform the same processes as the
damaged part of the brain it is replacing. The prosthesis will
first be tested on tissue from rats' brains, and then on live animals.
If all goes well, it will then be tested as a way to help people who
have suffered brain damage due to stroke, epilepsy or Alzheimer's
disease."
Turing Test For News Services
Turing Test For News Services
05/27/2004 03:21 AMGoogle News automatically assembles news articles and has about a
million monthly visitors. And everyone already knows that its
automated. But if no one knew that, would Google News still have
lost to WashingtonPost.com for a 'best
internet news service' award? Apparently, news editors may have
to pass a Turing test soon before they can be deemed worthy of awards
or avoid the criticisms of arranging news stories without the efforts
of hard-working human beings.
Visual Turing Machine 1.0 (Default
branch)
Visual Turing Machine 1.0 (Default
branch)
06/22/2005 02:27 AM
Visual Turing Machine (VTM) is a program that lets
you create Turing machines with a point and click
interface instead of using esoteric languages. You
can pack your complex machines into small boxes,
and then reuse them as part of a bigger machine.
VTM also features an infinite length tape.
Elizabot passes sex-chat Turing test
Elizabot passes sex-chat Turing test
07/27/2004 05:51 AMA bored hacker modified an Eliza programme to act as an IRC sex-chat
bot that impersonated an eighteen year old girl (or, rather,
impersonated a sex-chat afficianodo of indeterminate gender
impersonating an eighteen year old girl). He assumed that people would
try to have cyber-sex with his bot and get bored, but in fact a
surprising number were convinced and even got off with it.
This is a plot element in Bruce Sterling's brilliant "RU486?" a short
story collected in Globalhead -- feminist hackers finance their RU486-running
operation with a phone-sex line staffed by automated chatterbots.
It turns out that pornbots are among the class of Eliza-derivatives
that can pass a Turing Test (or rather, horny sex-chat boys are among
the class of human beings that can't tell a chatterbot from a person
-- other groups include psychotherapists, who, in one experiment,
couldn't distinguish actual transcripts of therapy sessions with
schizophrenics from simulated therapy with schizophrenic chatterbots;
and the university student who mistook a chatterbot for his prof in
the middle of the night when he IMed same for permission to extend
deadline on a late paper).
'eliza' is a program that talks to you, pretending to be a
psychologist. its script of possible responses is super tiny, so it
doesn't fool anyone. or so i thought.
IRC is a network full of chat rooms (or "channels") where a lot of
scary internet people (or "perverts") hang out. my friend reduz found
a version of 'eliza' that could go on IRC. he put it on IRC. a lot of
people from other countries thought it was a real woman, so naturally
they tried to have sex with it. they got frustrated quickly. reduz is
a bad man...
so i replaced eliza's tiny, boring script with a massive dumb blonde
script that has like 3,800 responses on all sorts of topics, but
mostly sex. jenny18 is very horny and she loves talking to horny guys.
and everyone knows the best place to talk to horny guys is on dalnet
irc sex channels.
Link (Warning, contains
links to transcripts of IM-based sex, NSFW)
(
via Waxy)
Colin Viebrock: Turing Protection with
an Image
Colin Viebrock: Turing Protection with
an Image
04/13/2004 08:43 AMBy now, I'm sure you've see the "turing test" images that sites have
in an effort to bypass the usual form. They are the ones with the
image beside them, forcing the user to actually be able to understand
the letters in the image to make it past the form. Well, Colin
Viebrock's weblog has
a new posting
that can help you create and use this powerful tool on your own site.
Good-Turing method finally improved-upon
Good-Turing method finally improved-upon
11/16/2003 04:44 AMSixty-or-so years since Alan Turing and IJ Good invented the
Good-Turing method for modeling of probability distributions behind
data streams as part of the Allied code-breaking effort, researches
have discovered the limit of its usefulness, and produced a
replacement method that transcends them:
The German Enigma encryption machine used a huge number of decryption
keys, making it almost impossible to crack the code. British
intelligence had gained possession of Enigma machines, had determined
how they worked and had even obtained a copy of the full book of keys.
Some messages had been decrypted and the keys used recorded, so that
the code breakers had a small sample from a very large set of keys.
But it was unlikely the Germans would continue to use the same keys,
so some method of assigning a probability distribution to the keys not
yet used was needed...
Orlitsky was able to discover this limit by quantifying the problem in
terms of the positive integers. The nature of the sample set is
actually irrelevant to the probabilistic algorithm. What matters is
the order in which outcomes appear and how often they appear. So a
sample sequence such as giraffe, giraffe, elephant, giraffe, zebra
would be encoded in numbers as 1,1,2,1,3. Every time a new item
appears, it is assigned the next-highest number, so that this
mathematical model, according to its creators, can capture the worst
possible problem-one in which there is an infinite number of hidden
data items.
Link
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Patrol)
Blind Man's Bluff and the Turing Test
Blind Man's Bluff and the Turing Test
04/09/2004 04:01 PMA recently released paper by
Andrew Clifton proposes that the Turing test does not provide a valid
criterion for the presence of consciousness. Imagine a "Turing Test"
in
which the interrogators must be convinced that the participant is a
normally sighted individual. A blind person might pass by successfully
lying about the visual sensations experienced by sighted persons.
According to Clifton, this means an intelligent enough computer could
pass a Turing test by lying about being conscious. He then goes on
to attempt to define consciousness and propose a test for it that he
calls the "Introspection
Game".
Antispam "Turing Tests" can't
distinguish between the blind and
software
Antispam "Turing Tests" can't
distinguish between the blind and
software
11/06/2003 06:14 PMThe W3C has singled out "captchas" -- the pseudo-Turing-Tests intended
to keep spammers form using automated tools to create freemail
accounts in bulk -- as disastrous for the blind and other disabled
users of the Internet, since they rely on sight and reading
comprehension to work. IOW, it's not a good Turing Test if the blind
fail it as often as a computer does.
LinkAlan Cox:
Alan Cox:
03/20/2003 08:56 PMAlan
Cox: "XFree86 is hard to get involved with usefully, resistant to
cool ideas and strongly wedded to an occasional not rolling regular
release model. ... X has to evolve, X has to do cool stuff, X has to
let people break stuff, X has to delegate trust to driver maintainers
far more. ... As a driver maintainer X is a painful project, not
because of the code ... but because of the project structure and lack
of delegation."
El retorno de Alan Cox
El retorno de Alan Cox
09/14/2004 06:28 PMCongratulations Alan!
Congratulations Alan!
06/12/2004 12:27 PMCongratulations to Alan Kay for winning 2004
Kyoto Prize in addition to the ACM
Turing Prize and the NAE Draper
Prize earlier. He's really "cleaning up" this year. This is cool.
He deserves it.
Hope this helps the Squeak project
too!
more info on
the Kyoto Prize
A Profile of Alan Greenspan
A Profile of Alan Greenspan
03/30/2005 01:12 AM
Alan
Greenspan Takes A Bath : a profile of Greenspan
Visita de Alan Kay a Extremadura
Visita de Alan Kay a Extremadura
01/06/2004 03:21 AMAlan Ralsky Gripes About Can Spam Act
Alan Ralsky Gripes About Can Spam Act
12/30/2003 08:48 PMXSS Vulnerabilities in Alan Ward Acart
XSS Vulnerabilities in Alan Ward Acart
12/04/2003 01:17 PMparag0d_at_phreaker.net (Dec 03 2003)
Bush renominates Alan Greenspan for Fed
Bush renominates Alan Greenspan for Fed
05/18/2004 02:50 PMPHP Magazine: Alan Knowles on XML_XUL
PHP Magazine: Alan Knowles on XML_XUL
07/26/2004 08:44 AMIn
a link from
PHP Magazine:
Bush Renominates Alan Greenspan for Fed
(AP)
Bush Renominates Alan Greenspan for Fed
(AP)
05/18/2004 01:28 PMAP - President Bush renominated Alan Greenspan as chairman of the
Federal Reserve on Tuesday, praising his leadership and sending a
strong signal of stability to financial markets.
Alan Kay Decries the State of Computing
Alan Kay Decries the State of Computing
07/13/2004 09:03 AMAlan Moore on our modern distopia
Alan Moore on our modern distopia
07/22/2004 02:31 AMSalon has an excellent interview with Alan Moore, the man behind
Watchmen, From Hell and other canonically awesome funnybooks. Moore
talks distopian politics:
One of the reasons we singled out media in "V for Vendetta" was
because it is one of the most useful tools of tyranny. We invite it
into our own home every night; I'm sure that some of us think of it as
a friend. That might be a horrifying notion but I'm sure there are
people who think of television as perhaps one of their most intimate
friends. And if the TV tells them that things in the world are a
certain way, even if the evidence of their senses asserts it is not
true, they'll probably believe the television set in the end. It's an
alarming thought but we brought it upon ourselves. I mean, I think
that television is one of the most diabolical -- in the very best
sense of the word -- inventions of the past century. It has probably
done more to degrade the mind and intelligence of its audience, even
if they happen to be drug addicts or alcoholics; I would think that
watching television has done more to limit their horizons in the long
run. And it has also distorted our culture.
TV and politics have always made inevitable bedfellows, but the
results have been disastrous. Look at the situation we have now. Let's
say that tomorrow someone who is a political genius were to emerge --
and I'm not expecting this to happen, but say that it did. Say that a
politician emerged who seemed, for once, basically competent, who
seemed to be able to do their job as well as the average cab driver,
comic writer or journalist. If they were the most intelligent,
visionary, humane political thinker in the history of mankind, but
were also fat, had some sort of blemish or something that made them
less than telegenic, we would not be able to elect them. All we're
able to elect are these telegenic, photogenic crypto-Nazis. As long as
they look good. I suppose it's too early to go into my rant on Ronald
Reagan? That would be tasteless.
Red Req'd Salon LinkAlan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck
Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck
01/23/2004 02:20 PMDo those MSN SPOT watches stand a chance? Mobile data pundit Alan
Reiter says (
this) (
and this),
summarized by BB reader John Troyer:
- They're big and ugly
- They need to be recharged daily
- They crash and sometimes die when shocked with static
electricity
- They have to be turned off on planes
- Coverage is spotty compared to pagers and mobile phones
- News blurbs are 25-word useless snippets
- You have to tell MSN when and where you are traveling for it to
work away from your home area!
- Nobody's *ever* made money selling generic headlines, weather and
sports via wireless.
Reiter also says:
"However, syncing with MS Outlook is useful, and Reiter
does believe they could catch on if Microsoft repositions to emphasize
the fun aspects: downloadable watch faces, games, etc. ... [The
watches] look as if they were designed by the Borg, on a very bad day.
Many years ago Motorola introduced its first pager watch, I was there.
I was pretty excited about the product. But when I spoke with a
Motorola executive, he said the company wasn't sure whether the target
market would view the device as a smallest, sexiest pager or as the
world's ugliest watch. Unfortunately for Motorola, the view was the
latter. Pager watches have generally died quick or lingering deaths.
But the operative word is "death."
Link to earlier BoingBoing entry on MSN SPOT Watches
Q&A: Former Novell CTO Alan Nugent on
his move to CA
Q&A: Former Novell CTO Alan Nugent on
his move to CA
03/24/2005 07:44 PMAlan Nugent, who is slated on April 8 to become senior vice president
and general manager of the Unicenter business unit at Computer
Associates, spoke today with Computerworld about his plans.
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