In the middle of this cutting-edge work, during an investigation into the burgling of Alan Turing’s house, he confessed to a relationship with another man. Being charged and convicted with “gross indecency”, he was served with twelve months of hormone therapy or imprisonment. After a year ...
Alan Turing - A short BiographyHodges, Andrew
II, where Alan Turing broke the Enigma code. The Bletchley Park clock tower, British code-breaking headquarters during World War II, where Alan Turing broke the Enigma code. (Image credit: Terence Mendoza Shutterstock) Turing took this idea and imagined the possibility of multiple Turing machines,...
Ever since Alan Turing, AI enthusiasts have equated artificial intelligence with human intelligence. A computer scientist working at the forefront of natural language processing, Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to reveal why this is a profound mistake. ...
Parts of this site originally appeared (in a different form) on the now defunctwww.fringeware.com. There it was part of what was called the SubCulture Project. My friend Bonesy Jones and I contributed the majority of the biographies that appeared there. When the site closed, we rescued the...
" "Oh, if Spielberg doesn't call then I'm going to go on holiday." But a week after I'd said that, I got the call to say I had the job. It's one of those moments you never forget - I just fell off my chair. Which is not a good start to the horseriding....
I’ve always been an optimist, and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place. It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, “Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.” ...
Norbert Wiener was a famous American mathematician who took the field of math and expanded it […] Alan Turing — Complete Biography, History and Inventions Updated: August 22, 2023 by Abby Key Points: Who Was Alan Turing? Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist,...
“Enigma Machine” codebreaker Alan Turing, but Fleming’s ideas for intelligence retrieval were either too dangerous or too absurd to contemplate. Fleming stored it all up for later use in his fiction, when he “would execute in modern form those plans which (he) had conceived against the ...
Ada Lovelace (born Augusta Ada Byron; December 10, 1815- November 27, 1852) was an English mathematician who has been called the first computer programmer for writing an algorithm, or a set of operating instructions, for the early computing machine built byCharles Babbagein 1821. As the daught...