Essays on alan turing

At the same time, all these important themes are organically embraced by one life story of a genius man Alan Turing who was lucky to have an outstanding intellect that saved many lives during the war.... Alan Turing is a central character in this film and he is brilliantly performed by Benedict Cumberbatch.... Today computers are everywhere and technology would never go so far without the contribution made by Alan Turing.... In the society where Alan Turing was born it was impossible to be homosexual....

The author methodically develops the psyche and achievements of Alan Turing.... In his book The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) the author David Leavitt presents his view on mathematics where he discusses the inability of the subject mathematics to penetrate the popular culture.... The entire idea is developed in the form of a biography of Alan Turing.... The author even remarks, "Alen turing bridged the gap between the delightfully useless and (for most people) remote landscape of pure mathematics and factory world of industry in which the ability of a machine to multiply together giant numbers....

n 1951, Alan Turing proposed the test known as ‘The Imitation Game' in a paper trying to settle the issue of artificial intelligence.... Alan Turing, then, modified the ‘imitation game' and put a man or woman, and a computer in another separate room.... Alan Turing proposes that the definition of intelligence can be passed to machines (computers) in that he believes that computers can be programmed to act like humans.... Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing and Metaheuristics: In the Footsteps of Alan Turing....

This paper 'Alan Turing's method' describes briefly Alan Turing's Life and his achievement through the Turing Test. This paper also gives a brief overview of the future that this test holds and concludes that the Turing Test has been, and will continue to be, an influential and controversial topic.... The author states that though Alan Turing was a failure in his life as he committed suicide; his scientific contribution will remain to be of great significance. The future developments in the field...

Annotated Bibliography: Copeland, Jack “The Modern History of Computing" Topic:  "Who invented the computer?... How did early computer work?... What were their limitations?... How would they compare with computers today?... Thesis: Since the modern world relies on computers and information technology, detailed history and knowledge on computers and information technology, is very fundamental in the recent times....

“The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook”, n.... lan Mathison turing, a computer analyst, mathematician and cryptoanalyst, provided a simple solution to this problem.... In a paper published in the Journal Mind, in 1950, turing suggests that rather than creating complications by using the word “think”, defining it, or asking whether machines can “think”, it is easier to develop a task that requires thinking, and testing whether a machine can succeed in that task....

The aim of the paper 'The imitation Game' is to analyze Turing test, which refers to the proposal made by Alan Turing in response to the question whether machines have the capability to think.... The imitation Game Turing test refers to the proposal made by Alan Turing in response to the question whether machines have the capability to think.... This method was referred by turing as 'The imitation Game'.... According to the essay, turing described the test as follows....

The paper "Competitive Advantage of Apple" states that products of Apple are durable and operable at all ranges making them more demanded than their rival's products.... Their broad asset base also facilitates their performance and more so extension and distribution of products across the globe.... ...

Turing while he was employed at the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University ('The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook').... “The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook”, n.... This report "What is the turing Test, and Why is it so Difficult to Pass" presents the turing Test that was suggested by Alan M.... What is the turing Test, and why is it so difficult to pass?... by What is the turing Test, and Why is it so Difficult to Pass? ...

Name Professor Class 20 April 2012 Early Computers 1.... Introduction Computers represent one of the most influential technologies we have developed in centuries.... They have taken over computation, data management and information processes.... The applications are countless and they are involved in our everyday life....

Alan Turing devised test for measuring machine intelligence, but according to Turing himself that did not deserve any discussion because of so many variants available.... He equates mind with optical, chemical and electrical phenomena that is known to the mankind.... According to him, mind means all the mental....

Perhaps the first computer software program was proposed by philosopher Alan Turing.... Today computers span the range of forms, from hand-size iPhones, to laptops, and large-scale government mainframes.... However, the 20th century witnessed great change.... ... ... This essay considers the history of computer hardware and software. ...

lan turing ... lan turing #4 ... The paper "Technological Inventions in Enhancing the Quality of Life Humanity" states that the internet has civilized how a human being conducts business reducing the need for physical processes.... Lastly, the paper found out that the internet has enhanced social connectivity through social networks....

In the "Turing Test", created by one of the fathers of computer science, Alan Turing and imaginary situation is set up.... Can a computer be said to be "thinking" or "knowing" if it passes the turing Test The answer is obviously no.... The paper "Can a Machine Know" highlights that at the most basic level, machines do 'know' things....

As the author of the present paper "The Integrated Marketing Communication at Apple Company" discusses, today many consumers interact with a brand by means of digital channels of communication – via personal computers, mobile devices, and tablet computers.... ... ... ... The integrated marketing communications allow reaching the greatest users' loyalty to a brand....

Alan Turing in 1950 published the paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” where he proposed a question “Can machines think?... Alan Turing: life and legacy of a great thinke.... The paper "Philosophy, turing Test" says that though the turing test appears to be quite effective for assessing computers, it is not that effective in certain social and ethical issues.... All this is so because a computer works on fixed instructions, even the turing machine....

Alan Turing conceived digital computing in 1936 and the first automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was built in the late 1940s.... The question's reference to Alan Turing's conception of digital computing in 1936 and the first automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was built in the late 1940s.... (2012, 2), the foregoing scenario is similar to what Alan Turing had predicted when he argued that at some point in time, humans should expect machines to take over the control from them....

Artificial Intelligence (AI) was pioneered by Alan Turing several years back.... Alan Turing: The Experiment That Shaped Artificial Intelligence.... "The Trouble with the turing Test.... The paper "Ethical Perspectives Related to Computer Science" describes that the software, hardware and firmware are of importance for technological advancement if they are maintained without the errors....

The paper "Engineering Contributions to Minimize Project Failures in the United Kingdom" is a good example of a term paper on management.... Arguments have been rife on whether project management skills are necessary for engineers in minimizing project failures.... ... ... ... The paper "Engineering Contributions to Minimize Project Failures in the United Kingdom" is a good example of a term paper on management....

Possibly, the publication of a paper entitled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" was the initial major happening in the history of AI, which was written by the British Mathematician Alan Turing.... According to Alan Turing, if a machine is able to pass a definite test (that is now acknowledged as the 'Turing test') then that machine can be acknowledged as intelligent....

Turing's imitation game was introduced by Alan Turing (1950) to deal with the question of whether a machine can have the ability to think.... It was introduced by Alan Turing (1950) to deal with the question whether a machine can have the ability to think.... "The Thought Experiment in the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence" paper focuses on the turing's imitation game, also known as the turing's test which is a well-known experiment designed to determine a machine's ability to display intelligence equivalent to that of a typical human being....

Digital computing began in 1940s and is credited to Alan Turing.... In this paper 'Digital Media Concepts', the discussion focuses on three digital media concepts which are digitization, interoperability, and media diversity.... The paper also demonstrates the interaction between digitalization and media diversity and digitalization and interoperability....

“The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook” Turing.... Other scientists such as James Thomson, Stanley Fifer, turing, John Atanasoff, Colossus, F.... The digital machine by turing had unlimited memory and a memory reader that read and wrote, under the management of a special program, to different memory locations (Copeland web).... It is also argued that, maybe it is turing who made the greatest contribution to the computer evolution by inventing the abstract digital machine that had unlimited memory and a memory reader that read and wrote to different memory locations by following a program (Hodges web)....

lan turing ... lan Mathison turing was a British mathematician.... turing laid the basis of modern computation by conducting the turing test that intended the creation of a machine that could perform likes humans. ... NIAC – Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was the first practical and electronic implementation of turing principles.... The concepts of Allan turing of a guided programmed computer processor capable of storing, reading, processing and executing instructions thus can be achieved through the high level and very sophisticated implementation of these circuits like MICROPROCESORS....

uring machines, first described by Alan Turing in (Turing 1937), are simple abstract computational devices intended to help investigate the extent and limitations of what can be computed. ... rookshear (1985) in his book describe turing, writing before the invention of the modern digital computer, was interested in the question of what it means to be computable.... uring proposed a class of devices that came to be known as turing machines.... These devices lead to a formal notion of computation that we will call turing-computability. ...

It has been argued that comparatively, one of the major reasons British IT brands are lagging behind American ones despite the fact that the former produced some of the key individuals in computing such as Charles Babbage and Alan Turing is a poor sense of regionalization.... An essay "Regionalization and Innovation: Work and Organisations" claims that the endurance of competitiveness on a global scale is essentially vested in factors that can be found locally and these include knowledge, motivations, and others that cannot be matched by distant rivals....

?The Man who knew too much; Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer.... The paper "Leadership with Power and Corporate Strategy" describes that if any successful organization is examined, one is sure to find a strong core culture, and there is further no doubt that if that culture and strategy are examined, one is sure to find a strong leader behind its existence....

rtificial intelligence as a scientific field emerged in 1950s when a British mathematician, Alan Turing, wrote a now famous paper entitled Computing machinery and intelligence, in which he explored the question on whether machines could think.... (turing 1950) His answer to this question was to propose a game, the Imitation game, as the basis for a test for machine intelligence.... While the turing test was widely criticized when it was proposed, still it provided the first concrete goal for AI research....

“The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook” Turing.... Other scientists such as James Thomson, Stanley Fifer, turing, John Atanasoff, Colossus, F.... The digital machine by turing had unlimited memory and a memory reader that read and wrote, under the management of a special program, to different memory locations (Copeland web).... It is also argued that, maybe it is turing who made the greatest contribution to the computer evolution by inventing the abstract digital machine that had unlimited memory and a memory reader that read and wrote to different memory locations by following a program (Hodges web)....

The computation Hayles referred to was taken after the concept suggested by the Alan Turing, the scientist famous for the Universal Turing machine.... Through the concept of Regime of Computation, the discourse on Derrida and Saussure's works, Alan Turing's computational principles, among other factors, Hayles was able to present credible arguments that support how language no longer dominates technologically-developed societies.... She explained that in the tradition of turing's work, computation has instantiated into some kind of platform, with components that can be structured in such a way that they build up increasing levels of complexity, which could reach the degree that resembles the most complex phenomena on earth such as social systems and thought processes (Hayles, p18)....

Then come the second in the electronic family of computing machines, Colossus, by Alan Turing in 1943.... The paper "Ethics while Using Computer Technology" discusses that Since the advent of time, humanity has always had a structure in its social conduct.... Through these social conduct, humans get along in harmony, and it was inappropriate to go against the expected social conduct....

22 years later, Alan Turing broke the enigma code.... Since the advent of computers, there have been numerous developments in the computing filed, many of which have helped improve the use of the machines.... One of these developments is networking which has penetrated the day to day activities of individuals and companies in today's life....

Jack Copeland's paper entitled, Narrow versus Wide Mechanism: Including a Re-examination of Turing's Views on the Mind-Machine Issue (Copeland, 2000), he examines the previous work by Alan Turing on the similarities between his Turing Machine and its similarities to the human brain.... The first paper is Copeland's views on the connection between the human mind and Alan Turing's computing machines, as well as the views of narrow and wide mechanisms' school of thought....

The mathematician Alan Turing (1950) comes up with the concept of the Turing machine to explain the basic processes involved when a computing machine does its computation.... Putnam originally uses the model of the turing machine to explain the basic features of functionalism....

From the paper "Marketing Communication of PETA Miss USA Queen" it is clear that the adverts have made the use of the sociological perspective components of syntactic, pragmatics and semantics, as well as the marketing perspective components of ostensive.... ... ... ... The marketing perspective is equally perfectly addressed, considering that both adverts combine a high degree of ostensive communication and a moderate but surprising degree of covert communication, to arouse the interest of the audience with catchy photographic symbols in both messages, and then compliment the same with sincere and serious messages....

What did Alan Turing ‘automate' with his ideas for computing?... The invention of a thinking machine was based on turing's belief that every aspect of human body could be imitated by a thinking machine.... he use of mock ups provided an ideal opportunity for turing to test and measure the artificial intelligence.... turing.... "turing's creativity and Science Fiction films: Abstractions and hidden layers in turing Arts Symposium....

These well-known futurists include roboticists Alan Turing (cited in Copeland, 2004), Hans Moravec (1990; 2000), and inventor Ray Kurzweil (with Grossman, 2004; 2005).... The essential turing: the ideas that gave birth to the computer age.... The author of this essay "The Human and Posthuman in Edward Scissorhands" examines the representation of cyborg subjectivity in Edward Scissorhands....

Prior to digital technologies invention by Alan Turing, films were in analogue form.... The paper "Digital Film and Media Technologies" tells us about The nature and function of media.... The nature and function of media today has immensely been altered.... These alterations are a result of the introduction of digital technologies which have challenged the gatekeeper's role of traditional media....

he Turing Machine, invented by Alan Turing, in 1936, which was described by David Chisnall as a mechanical programming engine, was able to simulate algorithms.... he Turing Machine invented by Alan Turing in 1936 proved that a machine can solve problems.... A set of pictures of Colossus and the other Father of Modern Computers, Alan Turing , can be found in the link as follows: http://www....

It was not until 1936 that a British mathematician Alan Turing came up with Universal Turing Machine that changed the film industry alongside the works of Konrad Zuse of Germany using binary codes (Manovich, 2011).... This report "Effect of New Media Technologies on Media Culture and People's Everyday Life- 3D Printer" discusses the emergence of 3D printing in which text, images, and sound have been integrated into space and time to extol human experiences and imagination....

A study indicated that most of the population was already aware of Samsung products.... The work of the marketing management, therefore, is not to inform people of Samsung but convince them that Samsung can also offer products of comparable, if not higher quality than their favored brand, Apple.... ...

The reverse Turing test we used here was initially developed by Alan Turing in 1950 [7].... These experiments also validated that this modular framework can filter calls based on mathematical calculations performed by the caller in the turing module. ... eyword- Internet Telephony; VoIP; SPIT; voice spam; modular framework; turing test; blacklists; white lists. ... o identify SPIT calls we have introduced here a framework with multiple modules, which will identify these calls with the help of a reverse turing test in the second stage of the test....

he recent depiction of a homosexual character, one of the most gifted mathematicians of the XXth century, Alan Turing, in the Oscar nominated “The Imitation Game” can also be regarded as a breakthrough in queer media discourse.... The main focus of the paper "Queer Critique is Essential to the Study of Media and Communications" is on examining such aspects as Queer theory, gender representation in queer theory, sexuality representation, the evolution of Queer Critique in modern media, celebrities' coming outs....

Nonetheless, the intelligent behavior displayed by some of the computing machinery falls under AI especially as per the description of Alan Turing.... The paper "Patent Laws in the Computer Industry" highlights that understanding the human brain will be advantageous because the robots will make a great breakthrough in the fields of medicine, information technology, transportation, communication among other fields....

The paper "Etihad Manchester East Renewal" tells that Manchester City Football Club has partnered with Etihad Airways who are sponsoring its proposed first team and youth development Academy which will be located in Openshaw West which is located in the East of Manchester.... ... ... ... Manchester City Football Club started its operations in 1880....

124)British Mathematician Alan M turing was the one who first figured out how to build a programmable computing device – the universal turing Device.... The objective of "Is It Possible for Machines to Think: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis" paper is to find a conclusive answer to the question 'Can machines think?...

During the same year, mathematician Alan Turing produced 'the Universal Turing Machine', which is considered one of the world's first official computers.... In 1950, turing published Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which addressed the computability of his neural networks....

This research is being carried out to evaluate and present the relationship of management leadership and performance for new products.... Most of the decisions that are made by the individual become effective in an organization only if those involved find it to be sensible.... .... ... ... This study will begin with the statement that consumers are always eager to try out the new products being introduced in the market especially on watching or listening to advertisements....

The paper "Engineering Contribution in Project Failure" describes that the rates of failure for typical machines from industries, 'bathtub' curve and exponential distribution have been essential when explaining the aspect of reliability thus helping engineers to minimize chances of project failures....

In this study 'The Rights of the LGBT' the author looks into the depths of discrimination in the United Kingdom, with a specials focus on the rights of LGBT.... He undertakes the tasks of researching on how the law has been adjusted to give way to the rights of the group.... ... ... ... The author describes a situation where AIDS and homosexuality were related....