Church-Turing thesis

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Thesis Survey : Surevey for a thesis
regarding hackers

Thesis Survey : Surevey for a thesis
regarding hackers 02/11/2004 01:24 AM
http://cs.swau.edu/~cbolante/survey.html ...eh.....me don't see this as 'scientific'....just me.....

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 PM
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life, extendable to a Universal Turing Machine

rendell.server.org.uk/gol/tm.htm
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"Feiler Fauxhawk Thesis"

"Feiler Fauxhawk Thesis" 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

You just submitted your master's thesis!
What are you going to do next?

You just submitted your master's thesis!
What are you going to do next? 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
Actually, that's just part of the holiday. I'm taking the family to Sarasota, Florida for a week with a...

How-To: Write your doctoral thesis

How-To: Write your doctoral thesis 05/12/2004 12:52 PM
In the event you accidentally find yourself a graduate student in an institution which grants the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, you will, at some point, be forced to write your doctoral thesis. Here's how to do it.

30-Sept-2003 -- Already Thinking About
the Thesis

30-Sept-2003 -- Already Thinking About
the Thesis 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Already Thinking About the Thesis (Joshua Kaufman) -- "I already have quite a few ideas brewing, but I’d love to...

When it Goes Both Ways: A Blogger for
the Liberal Media Thesis Meets Contrary
Evidence at the LA Times

When it Goes Both Ways: A Blogger for
the Liberal Media Thesis Meets Contrary
Evidence at the LA Times 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
The Dog Trainer is the mock title blogger Patterico sometimes uses for the Los Angeles Times, which he monitors for liberal bias. Patterico saw bias. He e-mailed the editors. A front page story about Ruth Bader Ginsberg resulted. The blogger won a big victory. He also thought it would never happen. Why?

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.

"Alan Turing"

"Alan Turing" 06/08/2004 08:54 AM

Alan Turing Honoured

Alan Turing Honoured 06/07/2004 11:52 PM
Free Internet Press Jun 8 2004 3:51AM GMT

Medio siglo sin Turing

Medio siglo sin Turing 06/07/2004 09:56 PM

Happy 92nd, Turing!

Happy 92nd, Turing! 06/23/2004 12:19 PM
Today 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 AM
Just a quick note from Colin Viebrock's weblog this morning:

Rethinking the Turing Test

Rethinking the Turing Test 07/11/2004 10:47 PM
In 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.

Turing Test for Sports

Turing Test for Sports 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Steven 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.

Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award

Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award 04/22/2004 10:43 AM

Turing and Post Machines: C++ Simulators

Turing and Post Machines: C++ Simulators 12/21/2003 01:14 PM
Universal Turing Machine (C++ Simulator) : Release 1.0

a fitting tribute to alan turing

a fitting tribute to alan turing 06/24/2004 02:49 PM
no good mind goes unpunished

Manchester honours Alan Turing

Manchester honours Alan Turing 06/07/2004 08:58 AM
The Register Jun 7 2004 12:46PM GMT

Is the Brain Equivalent to a Turing
Machine?

Is the Brain Equivalent to a Turing
Machine? 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
From 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."

Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers

Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers 05/16/2004 06:36 AM
Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers By Andy Reinhardt
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_19/b3882029_mz0 72.htm

Alan 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, the Inventor of Software

Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software 05/11/2004 09:16 AM

Turing Test For News Services

Turing Test For News Services 05/27/2004 03:21 AM
Google 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.

Alan Kay wins Turing Award

Alan Kay wins Turing Award 04/26/2004 02:43 PM
One of my heroes wins computer science's top award.

Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers

Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers 05/02/2004 02:07 PM
Business Week May 2 2004 6:24PM GMT

Good-Turing method finally improved-upon

Good-Turing method finally improved-upon 11/16/2003 04:44 AM
Sixty-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 (via Smart Patrol)

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 AM
A 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 AM
By 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.

Blind Man's Bluff and the Turing Test

Blind Man's Bluff and the Turing Test 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
A 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 PM
The 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. Link

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams.

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams. 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
Scarborough, ME -- January 12, 2004 Turing Opera Workshop releases the first teaser trailer for their production of Richard deCostas 3d sci-fi opera, K'ai, Death of Dreams. The trailer, available on the production website, http://www.RicharddeCosta.com/KaiOpera, is a preview of the opera scheduled for release in February. The opera is being produced entirely in 3d computer graphics. [PRWEB Jan 13, 2004]

"In a church"

"In a church" 06/25/2004 10:29 AM

The Church of the Long Now

The Church of the Long Now 07/16/2004 01:16 AM
July 02004 I believe that the folks over at the Long Now project are onto something, although they don't seem to quite realize it. They point out that civilization has a "pathologically short attention span" and are addressing this problem by building a 10,000 year clock that "ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium". They have a charming way of prepending a zero onto the date (so that 2004, for example, becomes 02004) to emphasize this point of view. Their goal is an admirable one - to focus humanity's attention on timescales that extend beyond a single life, but they don't seem to have thought very deeply about the underlying philosophy. I propose that the Long Now has profound implications for our species - implications that range from the mundane to the practical to the spiritual. What better way to organize and direct such implications than to form a new religion? All rational thinkers, hear me: Welcome to the Church of the Long Now.

"A dying church"

"A dying church" 05/15/2004 02:22 PM

"Church of Fools"

"Church of Fools" 05/15/2004 02:37 AM

Virtual church

Virtual church 05/13/2004 09:18 AM
Church of fools No time for church? Like sleeping in on Sunday? Worship the virtual way with Church of fools. Wander the crypt and sanctuary, chatting with Ned Flanders looky-likey's. For real, and sponsored by the Methodist church. Shockwave required. via linkdup

"A church sells"

"A church sells" 05/15/2004 02:22 PM

The Church of Jobs

The Church of Jobs 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
So, I write deep and thoughtful pieces< /a> on human life, or useful technical analyses, and what do I get? A couple of comments, and no links. OK, fair enough. Nobody really cares - I can live with that.

But then I post a biased, opinionated rant about how good Mac OS X is (of which most was copied from Jeremy Zawodny), and I get on the front page of TWO major Mac newssites, and MANY comments, completely agreeing with everything I said. Not a single whiff of disagreement.

It's kinda like going into a full church and shouting "God is Great!" from the top of your lungs - and the whole congregation goes off with an ear-deafening "Hallelujah!"

Scary.

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