turing

In 1950 Alan Turing introduced the idea that is know refered to as The Turing Test. If you were rable to have a 2 way conversation via computer with someone else.. would you be able to tell if you were communicating with another person, or a computer running a program designed to immitate human...

In Shadows of the Mind, Roger Penrose attempts to formalise Goedel's intuition about human knowledge and formal systems referred to in my previous post. Here is the argument: Now far be it from me to disagree with a genius, but I have problems with this. (1) Notice how some computations in...

I picked this up from Reuters

I'm trying to figure out how these Turing tests would be used for filtering email. Right now, whenever you want to send email via Outlook Express, you would compose a letter. This letter would be send via your machine directly to the SMTP server your ISP provides, then it would be sent through...

I read in Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works that Alan Turing said that one could, theoretically, build a computer out of dice, toilet paper rolls and other stuff. How? Or, perhaps more to the point, how does a computer work at the very bottom rung? What makes the 1's and 0's?