Saturday, June 9, 2012

Alan Turing name-checks his predecessor Charles Babbage

 

Turing, A.M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59, 433-460. (((The paper that invented the Turing Test or the "imitation game."))) "The idea of a digital computer is an old one. Charles Babbage, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge from 1828 to 1839, planned such a machine, called the Analytical Engine, but it was never completed. Although ...

Alan Turing name-checks his predecessor Charles Babbage
Bruce Sterling
Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:24:00 GMT

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