A computer program named "Eugene Goostman" has convinced a third of human judges into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy, becoming the first machine to pass the Turing test, Hannah Furness of The ...

In 1950, famed London scientist Alan Turing, considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, published a paper that put forth that very question. But as quickly as he asked the question, he ...

Adjunct Professor John Denning, MHA Click here for high-resolution version SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 1, 2014) - Golden Gate University (GGU) Adjunct Professor John Denning, MHA, was part ...

Sir Winston Churchill said Alan Turing’s breaking of German codes for secret messages shortened the Second World War by two years. Computer scientists credit Turing with formulating the philosophical ...

Alan Turing didn’t live to see his 100th birthday. Yet thanks to his pioneering work in computer science, cryptanalysis and artificial intelligence, his immortality is assured. And as Andrew Hodges ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a ...

In 1950, Alan Turing published “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, one of the first papers on artificial intelligence. But theory alone wasn’t enough. AI needed powerful computing. And at ...

The title of "First Computer" is a matter of historical debate, as its invention was a multi-step process rather than a single event. While Charles Babbage is often credited for the concept of the ...