Author: Pete Galati
Date: 15:28:26 04/26/00
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On April 25, 2000 at 16:04:08, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: >On April 21, 2000 at 15:38:16, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On April 21, 2000 at 15:04:38, Flemming Rodler wrote: >> >>>On April 21, 2000 at 13:59:27, Pete Galati wrote: >>> >>>>On April 21, 2000 at 13:40:36, Sean Empey wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 21, 2000 at 00:32:00, Pete Galati wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On April 20, 2000 at 20:53:28, Pete Galati wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On April 20, 2000 at 19:51:02, Pete Galati wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I've seen Alen Turning's Chess program that only existed on paper mentioned a >>>>>>>>few times, but I don't think I've seen any mention of how it actually worked. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Has his program ever been published? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Thanks. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Pete >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Sorry, his name is spelled Alan Turing, I spelled both his names wrong! >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Pete >>>>>> >>>>>>Best I can do is dig up it's name at the moment, "Turochamp". He should have >>>>>>been in marketing, good name, but it sounds more like a bicycle. >>>>>> >>>>>>Pete >>>>> >>>>>He was very much into riding bicycle's. Another Book you might want to look at, >>>>>though long is Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It's a novel that switches >>>>>between WWII and present. Dr. Alan Turing is a main focus in a lot of it. It >>>>>goes over a lot of his work and explains it in some detail. >>>> >>>>There seems to be an awfull lot written about Turing, I've only been looking >>>>into this this week. He seems to be very pivitol to the outcome of the digital >>>>age, and yet he's somehow a mostly unknown footnote. >>> >>>If you studie Computer Science he certainly not a footnote. He made a very >>>powerful mathematical model of computation called the Turing Machine. This model >>>is so powerful because computers can be viewed as Turing Machines and because it >>>makes it possible to prove a lot of interesting theorems about the computational >>>power of computers. >> >>The Turing machine is the one mention that I find of him in this Barron's >>"Dictionary of Computer Terms". >> >>> >>>Also one of the most (if not the most) prestigous awards that you can get in CS >>>is the Turing Award (something similar to the Nobel Prize). >>> >> >>The Turing awards sounds familier, I think that computer show that gets >>broadcast on PBS does a show from those awards every year, I could be mistaken. >>I wouldn't have grasped the significance of the award's name until starting to >>look into Turing some. >> >>Pete >> >>>> >>>>He was rather important to computers, and my guess at this point is that this >>>>CCC forum would not have existed (as it is) without his work creating the first >>>>Chess program. It's embaressing how little I know about this. >>>> >>>>Pete > >http://www.turing.org.uk/ [a great mathematician!] JAFM Thank's José, some of the Turing bookmarks that I've collected have been conected to that web site. Here's the bookmarks that I have at the moment, I had to create a "Alan Turing" bookmark folder to keep them all together. http://www.slc.edu/~ebj/IM_97/Lecture19/L19.html http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/archive.html http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/ai.html http://is1.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/writing/PCW/turing.htm http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/ http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~u7ss/alter.html http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~u7ss/home.html http://www.alanturing.net/ Seems like there's hundreds of Turing pages! I have made no attempt to check these for accuracy, so some of them might be rather suspect. I even found a band that is called "Turing Test", and I guess they've been around for several albums. I think their name could be considered an obscure reference. Pete
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