In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a complicated calculating machine. Computers were expensive, slow by modern ...
Art of the Problem on MSN
What can't be computed? How Turing drew the line between the solvable and the impossible
Alan Turing didn't just define what machines could do — he set out to find where computation itself breaks down. This is the ...
Two people can watch the exact same machine respond to a question and reach completely different conclusions about what just happened. One assumes anything convincing enough must be simulating a mind ...
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