Quote of the day by Alan Turing: "A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if..."

Two people can watch the exact same machine respond to a question and reach completely different conclusions about what just happened. One assumes anything convincing enough must be simulating a mind ...
Ars Technica

Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness

Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. The prize, which is given annually by the Association ...
New Scientist

Alan Turing

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...
Princeton University

Grad alum Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award for 'groundbreaking insights' in computer science

Princeton graduate alumnus Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizing his profound contributions to the mathematical underpinnings ...

Quote of the day by Alan Turing: "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so..."

Alan Turing's visionary foresight of machines possessing thought capabilities was quite revolutionary for his time. His ...
Nature

Randomness in computation wins computer-science ‘Nobel’

A leader in the field of computational theory is the latest winner of the A. M. Turing Award, sometimes described as the ‘Nobel Prize’ of computer science. Avi Wigderson at the Institute for Advanced ...