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RSS turingBletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News His announcement follows the recent award of £460,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to Bletchley Park and the apology by Prime Minster Gordon Brown to Alan Turing, the gifted Bletchley Park mathematician. [13 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown last... [14 Sep 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo Many of the veterans returning to Bletchley on Sunday were the Royal Navy Wrens who worked on the Type-X and the Bombe machine, developed by mathematician Alan Turing to crack the keys to Enigma codes - which the Germans... [07 Sep 2009]
ID cards, Oracle, iPlayer and how to save your job...
News Also big on the site last month was an exclusive interview with Turing Award winner and computing professor Barbara Liskov - discussing, among other things, data breaches, writing good code, and barriers to women getting... [08 May 2009]
'If Google decided to misbehave there'd be big trouble'
Comment 2008 Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov speaks to silicon.com about her research and hot issues from security to gender gaps. The winner of the 2008 ACM AM Turing Award for lasting and major technical... [08 Apr 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News The huts in which mathematician Alan Turing and others worked on codebreaking will not receive any of the funds, said Greenish, as they form part of an application for funds from the National Lottery. [12 Mar 2009]
Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud
News Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test silicon.com spoke to Hugh Loebner, the founder of a competition designed to find the first true example of artificial intelligence according to a definition set out by Alan... [30 Dec 2008]
Kurzweil's future, iPhone love, NHS IT, ID card insecurity
News Expect the Turing Test to be passed by 2029 - when computers will apparently have mastered human, intelligence, emotional intelligence and the whole gamut of manmade comedy, from slapstick to sarcasm. [25 Nov 2008]
'Nanotech to solve global warming by 2028'
News Click here to read the rest of silicon.com's exclusive interview with Ray Kurzweil - including his views on the Turing Test, human vs machine intelligence, what artificial intelligence means for future jobs and the... [20 Nov 2008]
Kurzweil: "Technology is a double-edged sword"
Comment When will the Turing Test be passed? However in order for a computer or any entity to pass the Turing Test it has to master human emotion - and human emotion is not some sideshow. Inventor and futurist... [19 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Synthetic people
Comment To answer this we may soon need a second Turing Test capable of detecting the presence or lack of real humanity. Written on KLM1515 flying from Norwich to Amsterdam and dispatched to silicon.com the same day via a... [11 Nov 2008]
Artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, BT's tunnels and Apple's patents
News There has been a lot of future gazing this month on silicon.com, although dreams of chatting to our toasters were dashed once again when the world's greatest artificial intelligences failed the Turing Test. [05 Nov 2008]
A New Anti-Spam Protocol Using CAPTCHA
White Paper One of these methods in this field is CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to tell Computer and Humans Apart) method. Today sending spams has turned to be a major problem in the Internet. It is so serious... [14 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test
News The prize uses the Turing Test to determine whether a computer is able to demonstrate human-like intelligence during five minutes of questioning from a number of judges. The Turing Test originates from a... [10 Oct 2008]
Hugh Loebner
AS Profile Since 1990 he has sponsored the Loebner Prize, a $100,000 award to the individual or organisation that produces the first computer to meet the Turing Test - the ability to produce responses that are indistinguishable... [07 Oct 2008]
