[game_preservation] Turning Machine

[Devin Monnens]

What if the machine could turn apples into gold? THEN you'd have a turning
machine :)

Turing apparently made the first chess program, but it coudln't be run
because there was no computer powerful enough at the time. He later assisted
Dietrich Prinz in his chess program. Turing tends to be a bit ignored in
computer history due to his sexual affiliations. He was incredibly
intelligent, and much of what we have based AI and computer philosophy on
can in some ways be connected to him. It's great to see new material on his
work!

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:


> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

>> Saw this on the NMOC mailing list: http://aturingmachine.com/

>>

>> Was pretty impressive. I realise such a machine is not exactly game

>> material (although no doubt you could program some simple tic-tac-toe pretty

>> easily on it), but as a basis of how computers can or do work, it's nice to

>> see the stuff from Turning's original papers actually be made and work. Very

>> fun to watch it too, if you check the video at the bottom.

>>

>

> "Turing." The name is "Turing." No hard 'n'. Say it with me now...

>

> :)

>

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>    -Mike Melanson

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