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Turmites
Downloads A Turmite is a Turing Machine that operates in two dimensions. A Turing machine is a theoretical construct from computer science; it's a machine that reads and writes symbols from a tape according to very simple rules.
[February 7, 2003, 6:00]
Researchers create DNA-based computer
News The system emulates a Turing machine, which is one of the fundamental concepts in computing. In theory, any Turing machine can do any computing problem. Because this system represents a Turing machine, it can be used for a very wide range of problems.
[November 22, 2001, 17:24]
Researchers create DNA-based computer
Talkback As it is, does it mean nothing to you guys that someone has produced a Turing machine at the molecular level? Think about it - a Turing machine can be built to simulate any other system in existence - it's simply a matter of complexity.
[March 6, 2006, 11:59]
Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
News This clever program was able to hold a seemingly intelligent conversation with a human, and many felt that given enough computer power and a large enough vocabulary these algorithms would make it possible for a machine to meet Turing's test for...
[March 27, 2006, 15:40]
AI: The story so far
News For this reason, the Universal Turing Machine could solve all mathematical problems. This hypothetical device could take on the configuration of any Turing machine depending on external conditions. He believed every mathematical question could be...
[January 23, 2001, 13:22]
Tech heroes in line for 'Greatest Briton' award
News Turing proved that in theory a machine could be constructed to prove that a mathematical theorem was true, and also argued that it would be possible to create a machine, now known as the Universal Turing Machine, that could solve all mathematical...
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
Geekender Gallery: Top 10 usability greats
Articles The Turing Test (after its creator, Alan Turing) pits a human interlocutor against another human, hidden from view, and a machine, also hidden. If this can't be done, the machine has demonstrated enough 'intelligence' to pass the Turing Test.
[September 11, 2009, 19:08]
Robots need culture says Sony scientist
News Steels's work deals with machine intelligence but it's a fundamentally different view from that embodied in the famous "Turing test". In one sense, Steels joked, the Turing test has already been passed -- by the Aibo.
[August 16, 2002, 14:57]
AI: The story so far Pt II
News For example, when Alan Turing suggested the Turing Test in 1950 he expect that an AI machine would be powerful enough to pass off as a human within 50 years. But, 50 years since it was devised, AI researchers have yet to design a machine capable of...
[January 23, 2001, 13:29]
Talking PCs make progress
News The Turing test -- building a machine that can respond like a human via typed messages -- was posed by World War II era computing pioneer Alan Turing. Rather than developing a machine that can converse, researchers are creating computers that can...
[July 9, 2003, 11:17]
Bots fail to live up to Turing Test - again
News According to Turing, in the year 2000, computer programming would have advanced to a stage where, after five minutes of conversation, the "average interrogator" would only be able accurately to tell if they were talking to a human or a machine 70...
[October 22, 2003, 14:35]
The machine that wanted to be a mind
News Since the 1950s, when Alan Turing famously predicted that by the year 2000 machines would be able to pass as human in conversation, the field has attracted high hopes, brilliant minds and heartbreaking failure in equal measure.
[January 23, 2001, 13:45]
Ray Kurzweil: Don't fear the nanofuture
News Of course, she doesn't yet pass the Turing test. The Turing test was developed by computer scientist Alan Turing to determine whether computers can "think". Among other achievements, Kurzweil, who has worked on artificial intelligence and pattern...
[March 20, 2001, 11:00]
Turing apology campaign: "public announcement shortly"
Blog It may be bad form to flag a news story based on a single tweet, but this one warrants it: It's from @jgrahamc - John Graham-Cumming, instigator of the petition to get an official apology for Alan Turing - ten minutes ago.
[September 10, 2009, 20:07]
Anti-spam tricks block the blind
News Turing's controversial hypothesis was that a machine could be defined as "intelligent" if a questioner could be fooled into believing it was a person. Efforts to create tests aimed at distinguishing humans from machines go back decades, with the...
[July 2, 2003, 13:28]
Visual Automata Simulator
Downloads A tool for simulating, visualizing and transforming finite state automata and Turing Machines. Easy-to-use GUI interface (multi-documents) Smart links between objects Machines can be drawn using the mouse - and resized at any time Multiple machines...
[November 14, 2005, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I consider whether it might be an idea to build a portable Turing Test machine, to be carried by the Net police and deployed during flame wars when one or more of the correspondents is being particularly stupid.
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
Hackers Rule OK
News Alan Turing and other cryptanalyts apply the scientist's theory of The Universal Turing Machine at the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park to crack the German military's legendary Enigma code.
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Scientists teach computer to speak
News In 1950, British mathematician Alan Turing proposed a test for intelligence whereby any machine capable of convincing a human that it was talking to another human should be considered intelligent. Steve Grand, author of Creation: Life and how to...
[April 12, 2001, 15:38]
Enigma thief will be found, says Bletchley director
News The work done by code-breakers such as Alan Turing -- credited with building the world's first programmable computer -- at Bletchley, also known as Station X, is thought to have helped shorten the Second World War by up to two years by cracking...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
