IN 1935, Alan Turing set out to build a reputation by outflanking the world’s leading mathematician. Turing was 22 years old, and a new fellow at Cambridge. His target, David Hilbert, was the ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper considers the problem of scheduling n jobs, each having a processing time, a due date and a weight, on a single machine to minimize ...

We take learning for granted. From infancy, humans have an innate ability to learn from our observations, enabling us to mimic conversation, avoid unpleasant environments, and recognize that good ...

On June 23, we commemorate the birth of Alan Mathison Turing, a visionary whose profound contributions laid the very groundwork for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Often hailed as the ...

That's what a Turing Test is designed to explore. The test is named for the British computer scientist Alan Turing, who first proposed it. (He's the guy the movie The Imitation Game was about.) ...