Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help researchers understand the tractability of problems in other areas.
A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common ...
Alan Turing, the father of theoretical computer science, made a proposal that has put AI development on a flawed path for ...
How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...
AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, whether it can be ...
Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed ...
Modern computer science is built upon a strong premise. Computation is an algorithm, and algorithms can be executed by machines. The formalization of this premise is computability theory in ...