{"id":233,"date":"2009-09-13T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-09-13T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T21:04:28","slug":"technology-as-seen-by-turing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/13\/technology-as-seen-by-turing\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology as seen by Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Michael Haworth<\/p>\n

“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”<\/p>\n

Quote from “Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing,” (Summer 1948), submitted to the National Physical Laboratory (1948) and published in Key Papers: Cybernetics, ed. C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson (1968) and, in variant form, in Machine Intelligence 5, ed. B. Meltzer and D. Michie (1969)<\/p>\n

Quotation and quotation information obtained from http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Alan_Turing<\/a><\/p>\n

When I think of technology, I often think about an absolutely amazing mathematician that had a tragic ending named Alan Turing. Turing was integral during World War II to unlocking the German secret Enigma machine codes.\u00a0 As can be seen in the quote above, he also brought forward the idea of a \u201cuniversal machine\u201d or technology that could simulate any computer algorithm.\u00a0 Turing also proposed the \u201cTuring Test\u201d to prove or disprove whether a computer could be considered \u201cintelligent\u201d or not. \u00a0Technology extends the mental and physical capabilities of humanity and surrounds us and is part of much of what we do and how we live.\u00a0 Technology includes everything from a simple plough to the most sophisticated computer or telecommunication systems. .\u00a0 I see Turing looking at \u201ctechnology\u201d from a \u00a0similarly very large, all-cncompassing perspective rather from a specific task or application perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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