Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Timeline for Intoduction to "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

1943 - the British Colossus computers built with the help of Alan Turing, a Cambridge mathematician.

1950 - Turing releases his article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" which describes what would later be called the "Turing Test" which raises the question "can a computer fool a person into believing that it too is human while communicating over a teletype setup?"

1950s (early) - billing systems being developed for use by businesses in computing, performing and keeping track of mathematical calculations. Turing's predictions for the computer, however, went beyond mathematical function.

1966 - The Association for Computing Machinery starts offering the annual Turing Award which is awarded to technical contributors with the field

1988 - Ivan Sutherland is given the Turing Award for his advancements in computer graphics which started with "Sketchpad."

1991 - Turing Test inspires the annual Loebner Prize competition

1997 - Douglas Engelbart given the Turing Award for being the inspiration behind interactive computer technology

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