Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing, 1950)


	Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing, 1950)
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d66869bb-eb99-4cbd-8f4d-e03419db03dc/680DC76E-BBED-4B70-8AE3-86BA461116E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html" href="http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html" style="font-size: 11px;">loebner.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html"><P align="center"><B><DIV><FONT size="+1">COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE</FONT></DIV>
    <BR /><DIV>
    By A. M. Turing</DIV>
</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html"><P>Turing, A.M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59, 433-460.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html">I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Turing&oldid=232194680" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Turing&oldid=232194680" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Turing&oldid=232194680"><H1 class="firstHeading">Alan Turing</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Turing&oldid=232194680">is often considered to be the father of modern <A title="Computer science" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science">computer science</A>. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the <A title="Algorithm" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">algorithm</A> and computation with the <A title="Turing machine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine">Turing machine</A>. With the <A title="Turing test" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test">Turing test</A>, he made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding <A title="Artificial intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence">artificial intelligence</A>:</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computing_Machinery_and_Intelligence&oldid=231106221" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computing_Machinery_and_Intelligence&oldid=231106221" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computing_Machinery_and_Intelligence&oldid=231106221"><P><B>Computing Machinery and Intelligence</B>, written by <A title="Alan Turing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing">Alan Turing</A> and published in <A title="1950" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950">1950</A> in <I><A title="Mind (journal)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_(journal)">Mind</A></I>, is a seminal paper on the topic of <A title="Artificial intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence">artificial intelligence</A> in which the concept of what is now known as the <A title="Turing test" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test">Turing test</A> was introduced to a wide audience.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/biblio.html" href="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/biblio.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.turing.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/biblio.html"><H1> Alan Turing's papers</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/biblio.html">full listing</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/biblio.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources//biblio1.html"><CITE>Mechanical Intelligence</CITE></A>
has everything related to electronic computing and to Artificial Intelligence</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/biblio.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources//biblio2.html"><CITE>Pure Mathematics</CITE></A> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/biblio.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">
<A href="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources//biblio3.html"><CITE>Morphogenesis</CITE></A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources/biblio.html"><A href="http://www.turing.org.uk/sources//biblio4.html"><CITE>Mathematical Logic</CITE></A> </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/680DC76E-BBED-4B70-8AE3-86BA461116E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>