je.st
news
Tag: turing
Eugene Goostman becomes the first AI to pass the Turing Test, convincing judges that hes a 13-year-old boy
2014-06-09 15:28:29| Extremetech
64 years after the father of computer science, Alan Turing, proposed a method of testing whether a machine has obtained human-level intelligence, a 13-year-old AI boy called Eugene Goostman has finally become the first artificial intelligence to pass the Turing Test. Don't worry, though, sentient computers aren't about to take over the world: The Turing Test is actually rather flawed, and doesn't really measure an AI's capability for intelligent thought.
Code-breaker Alan Turing to be pardoned (finally)
2013-07-20 18:37:50| CNET News.com
Vilified by the British government for his homosexuality -- a fact that many say led to his suicide -- the famous mathematician and Enigma code-breaker is now likely to receive a posthumous pardon. [Read more]
Tags: finally
alan
turing
codebreaker
Cryptography scientists win 2012 Turing Award
2013-03-14 00:38:56| CNET News.com
Association for Computing Machinery bestows its award on Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali for pioneering technology in Internet security. [Read more]
Tags: win
award
scientists
cryptography
Turing Award goes to MIT crypto experts
2013-03-13 16:39:31| InfoWorld: Top News
A pair of MIT professors and security researchers whose work paved the way for modern cryptography have been named winners of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize in Computing."
Tags: mit
award
experts
crypto