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Link Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as…

October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments
Twitter Links On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'
Influencing Machines are described by their troubled inventors as complex structures, constructed of “boxes, cranks, levers, wheels, buttons, wires, batteries and the like.” Sometimes…

October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments
Link Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)
The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the…

March 3 2011, 8:55am | Comments
Link The interface and the machine
Being that this conference is about public interfaces, it would be evidently meaningful to talk about interfaces, machines and humans. But instead of examining the present multifaceted overwhelming and immense…

January 10 2011, 4:53am | Comments
Link Awe and the Machine
By the twentieth century, some cynicism had crept into descriptions of the newest machines. Writing about the impact of radio on his rural Maine community, E. B. White observed, "One…

August 2 2010, 4:03am | Comments

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