101. The Alan Turing Home Page The Alan turing home page The Alan turing home page celebrates the life and work of the mathematician, philosopher and cryptographer, Alan turing (19121954). The author of the site, Andrew Hodges http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/&y=0243692F

102. What Is Turing Test? - A Word Definition From The Webopedia Computer Dictionary to cut through the philosophical debate about how to define thinking, turing devised a subjective test to answer the question, Can machines think? and http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/Turing_test.html

You are in the: Small Business Channel Jump to Website ECommerce Guide Small Business Computing Webopedia WinPlanet Enter a word for a definition... ...or choose a computer category. choose one... All Categories Communications Computer Industry Companies Computer Science Data Graphics Hardware Internet and Online Services Mobile Computing Multimedia Networks Open Source Operating Systems Programming Software Standards Types of Computers Wireless Computing World Wide Web Home Term of the Day New Terms New Links ... Be a Commerce Partner Turing test Last modified: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 A test devised by the English mathematician Alan M. Turing to determine whether or not a computer can be said to think like a human brain. In an attempt to cut through the philosophical debate about how to define "thinking," Turing devised a subjective test to answer the question, "Can machines think?" and reasoned that if a computer acts, reacts and interacts like a sentient being, then call it sentient. The test is simple: a human interrogator is isolated and given the task of distinguishing between a human and a computer based on their replies to questions that the interrogator poses. After a series of tests are performed, the interrogator attempts to determine which subject is human and which is an artificial intelligence . The computer's success at thinking can be quantified by its probability of being misidentified as the human subject. E-mail this definition to a colleague For internet.com pages about

103. The Web As A Turing Machine Sorry! There was an error Can t find a subtable named C\Frontier\Guest Databases\www\discussUserLandRedirect.root . The error http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$10950

Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998. The web as a Turing Machine Author: Dave Winer Posted: 9/12/1999; 8:47:24 PM Topic: The web as a Turing Machine Msg #: Prev/Next: What is a Turing Machine? In 1936, before the age of computers, Alan Turing, an English mathematician working at Princeton University defined what has come to be known as a "Turing Machine". It's a very simple specification that defines what a computer is. Three simple components, a tape reader, a tape writer, and a processor. The processor reads information from the tape, transforms it, and writes the transformed data to the output tape. Many of today's everyday objects fit the Turing model. A digital cellphone is a Turing Machine its input tape is the keypad, and the output tape is its memory. If your refrigerator, car, bicycle, or stereo has a computer in it, it can be modeled as a Turing Machine. Turing discovered the mathematics of computers, and his model still works, and probably always will work, to simplify the understanding of what we do with computers. The web as a Turing machine Now, if so many things are computers, is the web also a computer, according to Turing's mathematics? Well, yes and no. Much of the web is static pages that do not respond to input. Those are not Turing. But more of the web is dynamic, and that part fits the Turing model, and therefore, is just like any other computer you might encounter.

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