Turing was a tortured soul, no doubt. Like most geniuses, he had his demons. One wonders what other insights could have come from his brilliant mind. Such is genius. Even Newton wasn't the most stable personality, unfortunately, neither Einstein. Like Mozart, they had an insight into the inner workings of the universe. We are fortunate to have the fruit of their labors while they still kept a grip on daily life. Luckily, the human race makes babies at a prodigious rate. Statistics tell us that we haven't experienced our last gifted soul. He/she will probably have a Chinese surname, as things go these days. The Google graphic is still lame. C. On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
Yeah, its a simple Turing machine.
Turing was a fascinating man. He invented the bombe, the machine used to break the enigma code during world war 2, and is considered the father of artificial intelligence with his Turing tests. He was a brilliant mathematician and cryptographer.
Turing machines are a hypothetical computational machine that help to understand the limits of mechanical computational algorithms. Turing tests are tests given to humans that try to have the human distinguish the answers given by a machine as indistinguishable from an humans answers. Basically to see how far we can go with artificial intelligence.
I've always wondered what modern computer science would look like if he hadn't committed suicide in his early forties.