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Monthly Archives: November 2011
The Turing Elves Put On Radiohead Masks
Days to Centenary: 214 Turing Elves — to whom I have referred several times on this blog — are those often invisible but near-ubiquitous souls who have no official standing vis a vis Alan Turing, but who nonetheless mount performances, … Continue reading
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Turing in Fiction — Greg Egan’s “Oracle”
Days to Centenary: 219 There is a small but not insignificant body of fiction which features Alan Turing as a character. With great good luck it turns out that some very good examples of the oevre are available free online. … Continue reading
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24 Chinese Rooms — Thinking With Meat, Thinking With Metal
Days to Centenary: 224 John Searle is an American philosopher who has proposed one of the most commonly cited arguments against the possibility of genuine artificial intelligence in a computing device. His position — to oversimplify wildly — is that … Continue reading
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Touring Turing — Awesome Artists for a Genial Genius
Do not miss this: the official Alan Turing Year 2012 is on IndieGoGo.com to raise funds for a Turing-centric art exhibition that will be staged at a number of different venues. This will be a travelling exhibit entitled “Intuition and Ingenuity,” … Continue reading
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The Desire for Enigma: The Mysterious Theft of the Code Machine
Days to Centenary: 234 On April 1, 2000 someone pulled a major April Fool’s prank, stealing one of only three Enigma code machines in the world from Bletchley Park. The Abwehr Enigma G312 machine was valued at £100,000. Police believed … Continue reading
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On Hallowe’en I Wore My Homo Sapiens Costume
Days to Centenary: 236 On Hallowe’en I wore my homo sapiens costume to hide the fact that I’m actually homo artificialis. While the streets teemed with kids dressed as giant iPhones and Terminator robots, I wandered the city, for once … Continue reading