• 1837 Babbage
  • Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

• 1843 Lady Ada Lovelace

• 1931 Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem

• Turing
  • 1936 Turing Machines, The Universal Computer, and the Halting Problem
  • 1939-1942 Breaking the Enigma Code
  • 1950 The Turing Test and machine intelligence

• 1936-1946 The first Computers
  • 1945 Von Neuman Machines.
    1. The Store (Memory)
    2. The Executive Unit (CPU)
    3. The Control

• 1966 Eliza
  • Joseph Weizenbaum
  • his famous paper

• 1990 Loebner Prize

• 1996 Deep Blue

• 2002 A Babbage Engine is finally constructed

• 2004 Alice wins the Loebner Prize for the third time.

• Turings critics
  • 1990 John Searle and the Chineese Room Argument
  • 1993 Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test
  • 1999 Jaron Lanier
  • 2006 Steve Harnad

Turings Arguments

• Theological
• Head in the sand
• Mathematical
• Consciousness
• Disability
• Lady Lovelace's objection
• Continuity of nervous system
• Informality of behaviour
• ESP
• Learning Machines

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