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Loving the robot: How thinking computers can make us better people

...book - that even if sometime soon a chatbot manages to beat the Turing Test judges, for Christian this isn't the end of the line... Read more

1 July, 2011 by Steve Ranger
Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

...of Alan Turing's birth. Image credit: Guy Erwood/Shutterstock 9. The Turing Test and AIAt the other end of the scale we have Turing... Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper

Petition to pardon Alan Turing in Turing Year

...a way to measure machine intelligence, which today is known as the Turing Test. Cooper says: "The foundations [Turing] laid in computer science and mathematical... Read more

2 December, 2011

Turing papers saved for the UK

...in 1950, which introduced a test for artificial intelligence now called the Turing test. The collection also holds a copy of On Computable Numbers, which... Read more

25 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Book review: Texture

...networks along the way. Harper also takes a novel look at the Turing test and how it ignores most of the important issues in communicating... Read more

31 January, 2011

Forcing Things Social

I’m at Salesforce.com’s Cloudforce event in London, where the company is launching a new mobile version of its Chatter... Read more

8 September, 2010
The Bot 3.5

The Bot 3.5

...In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum created a program which appeared to pass the Turing test. The program, known as ELIZA, worked by examining a user's... Read more

14 May, 2012

ALICE talks her way to victory in AI challenge

...conversation as if with humans. This is a variant of the famous Turing Test, proposed by the eponymous researcher, which says that we can consider... Read more

16 October, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Bots fail to live up to Turing Test - again

The Loebner Prize tests the 'humanness' of advanced artificial intelligence systems, but it seems they are not yet human enough Read more

22 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia
Variations of the <endeca_term>Turing Test</endeca_term> in the Age of Internet and Virtual Reality

Variations of the Turing Test in the Age of Internet and Virtual Reality

Inspired by Hofstadter's Coffee-House Conversation (1982) and by the science fiction short story SAM by Schattschneider... Read more

23 April, 2009
Implementing Captcha Validation With OWA 2003 and Forms-Based Authentication

Implementing Captcha Validation With OWA 2003 and Forms-Based Authentication

The word 'Captcha' stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Most World Wide Web users... Read more

27 April, 2006

IM worms step up a gear

...that engages users in conversation may not be ready to pass the Turing test, but could be the start of a worrying trend Read more

7 December, 2005 by Joris Evers
User Authentication With Provable Security Against Online Dictionary Attacks

User Authentication With Provable Security Against Online Dictionary Attacks

...best known threats on the password-based authentication schemes. Based on Reverse Turing Test (RTT), some usable and scalable authentication schemes are proposed to defeat... Read more

1 May, 2009
SemCAPTCHA' User-Friendly Alternative for OCR-Based CAPTCHA Systems

SemCAPTCHA' User-Friendly Alternative for OCR-Based CAPTCHA Systems

In this paper, the authors present a new CAPTCHA system (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart). This proposal, SemCAPTCHA, is motivated... Read more

11 November, 2008

Spammers use free porn to bypass Hotmail protection

...automation, Web mail companies started using the Captcha test (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), which creates a graphically distorted... Read more

6 May, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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