What Turing Did after He Invented the Universal Turing Machine
Copeland (B. Jack) & Proudfoot (Diane)
Source: Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, Vol. 9, No. 4, Special Issue on Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence (Oct., 2000), pp. 491-509
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  1. Alan Turing anticipated many areas of current research in computer and cognitive science.
  2. This article outlines his contributions to Artificial Intelligence, connectionism, hypercomputation, and Artificial Life, and also describes Turing's pioneering role in the development of electronic stored-program digital computers.
  3. It locates the origins of Artificial Intelligence in postwar Britain. It examines the intellectual connections between the work of Turing and of Wittgenstein in respect of their views on cognition, on machine intelligence, and on the relation between provability and truth.
  4. We criticise widespread and influential misunderstandings of the Church-Turing thesis and of the halting theorem. We also explore the idea of hypercomputation, outlining a number of notional machines that "compute the uncomputable".

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