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Nancy Casey
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Nov. 7, 2012, 5:09 a.m.
" Turing was a British mathematician and logician. In the first half of the 20th century he articulated a conceptual framework surrounding so-called “mechanical thinking devices”. His ideas were entirely theoretical. Because Alan Turing lived before the first electronic computers were actually built. All the same, many of his ideas remain at the foundation of theories of computation and the field of computer science. One question Turing thought about was: Are there circumstances under which a computing machine could be said to think? ..."

Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/turing/
Music by Kevin MacLeod
Date-stamped 11-7-12, but material is not pegged to any particular date or event.

Turing Test Download Program Podcast
00:04:53 1 Nov. 7, 2012
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