Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:52:20 04/21/00
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On April 21, 2000 at 10:32:34, guy haworth wrote: >There certainly is a detailed description of his 'program' ... which was an >algorithm rather than a working piece of code. > >[ It was also true of his Mersenne-primes 'program' that it was an algorithm ... >and that others were left to code it, in that case Tom Kilburn I think. ] > >The description is in a book in the local Univ library which I'll dig out. >"Faster than Thought" by Bowden is 'favourite'. > >From what I remember, it scored positively for material and perhaps for mobility >as well ... adding together the scores, Shannon-style. > >Turing actually played a game against someone, manually calculating the >position-scores and emulating the 'program' himself. [ He lost quite quickly. ] > >Yes, it would be fun to have this 'program' functionally recreated: it must be >quite trivial with the Crafty infrastructure. > >Guy On this page http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/ai.html it attributes the book "Faster than Thought" as being Turing's book, but I have no idea if that's accurate. I've been somewhat amazed that since the program only existed on paper that I have not been able to find it somewhere out here on the web. But to be honest, I have not tried for very long yet. Pete
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