Alan Turing's Legacy

Neil Postman, a firm protester against technology, begins his argument in The Judgement of Thamus with a parable about a king rejecting an inventor who incorporates writing into their society; the king, Thamus, is steadfast in his belief that writing’s future burdens will outweigh its immediate success. Postman argues that technological discoveries change the way we think, manipulating our culture and our understanding of the world. He states that the primary difference between computers and humans is the ability to self-learn - but what happens when the human race conquers that barrier with technology? Artificial Intelligence is often referred to as the "field I would most like to be in" by researchers in other sciences (semanticscholar.org). It is not only prominent in subfields like reasoning and logic, but also in precise tasks like playing chess, proving theorems, and diagnosing diseases. The short-term benefits of Artificial Intelligence depend on who controls it, while the long-term benefits of Artificial Intelligence depend on if we can control it at all. When considering synthetic intelligence, I believe our outlook must be cautiously positive. As Postman suggests, the development of technology has significant advantages and disadvantages. Futurists believe AI will redefine the human world by enabling software’s ability to self-program and by minimizing the time it takes to solve a challenge. However, the safety issues and current jobs that will be replaced by

On June 9, 1995 Timothy John Berners Lee was brought into this world. He grew up with four other siblings including himself. He attended Sheen Mount primary school which is a middle school and then Lee attended South West London school called Emanuel school. Berners Lee parent were named Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners Lee. After graduating high school, Lee began to work as an engineer working with telecommunications.

Bill Gates made a lot of changes to the way the world operates through technology and made life at lot easier for other people around the world. Bill Gates (also known as William Henry III or Trey) is an American entrepreneur, business mogul, investor, philanthropist, and one of the most richest and influential people in the world. He was also known as the best businessman in the 20th century. In his years as a child, he had the attitude for math and science as well as showing interest in computer programming in his teenage years.

There were those who did not agree with Turing’s belief that computers would one day pass the Turing Test or that artificial intelligence could be created. A philosopher by the name of Lady Lovlace challenged Turing’s theory. She argued that machines could never learn and adapt and so nothing creative could ever come from a machine. She claimed that machines

Bill Gates is also a man who made a difference in the Twentieth Century, though his passion in the beginning of his career came strictly from knowledge and intelligence. Gates is described by Who’s Who in the Twentieth Century as a “US businessman who co-founded Microsoft Corporation, which in the 1980s became the leading computer software producer.” In 2008, Microsoft was, according to this same source, accused of illegal activities, which led to Gates departure at Microsoft (Phillips, 2008).

Alan Turing had a hard life in his childhood. His parents did not take care of him because they were always on the move. Instead, they put him and his older brother in the care of people willing to take care of them. “While in elementary school, the young Turing boys were raised by a retired military couple” (“Notable Mathematicians”).

life we need to look at his past, opponents, obstacles, inventions, and service to others.

Although the effect of Turing’s contribution cannot be quantifiable in the Battle of the Atlantic or even the war in general, it is agreeable that with Ultra, the Allies had an upper hand in winning the war. The Allies essentially knew what the Germans were thinking, their ways, actions, and habits. This provided tremendous amounts of information for the Allies, which then benefited their strategies of approaching the

In a world that is currently dominated by computers, it’s hard to imagine what it was like before they were invented. Though computers only began having a major influence in the last 60 years, the idea for them was first conceived almost 200 years ago. This technology would not have been possible without the work of Ada Lovelace, who is considered one of the pioneers in the field of computer programming. She had a vision of the possible benefits and capabilities of a computing machine. Even though she would never see her vision become a reality, her legacy and work had a lasting impact on the future of technology. However, during her lifetime she experienced multiple setbacks in pursuing her education

Tim Berners-Lee went to Emanuel School from 1969 - 1973 and to Queens College, Oxford from 1973 - 1976.(Stacy, Robert) He attended Queens College at Oxford University, while he was a student there he built a computer from his collection of spare electrical parts. His last year at Queens College he got kicked out for trying to hack into the colleges website just for the fun of it. He also attended Emanuel School which is a private boys school in southwest London (Tim Berners-Lee (Bio)) One day when Tim came home, his father was reading books about the human brain, while working on a speech about how much more powerful and useful computers would be if like the human brain they could make connections among random pieces of information. (Tim Berners-Lee (Bio))

Hawking has not let his disease define him, publishing many books, teaching at Cambridge for some time, and receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barak Obama in 2009 (Witherbee 3). Hawking overcame an obstacle few others could have, all while revolutionizing the understanding of the universe. He proved the mainstay of modern knowledge, through his work on the Big Bang Theory, and made various other contributions. Stephen Hawking is one of the most talented individuals of the 21st Century, not only due to his work In the field of math and physics but also for the extraordinary life he has

I always knew we were going to lose mum, it was inevitable. But no-one could have ever guessed we would lose dad as well, it’s wasn’t fair, it isn’t fair and it will never be fair. Mum died from a cancerous brain tumour three months ago, I turned eighteen today and dad left yesterday.

Tim Berners-Lee has not even come close to attaining the same celebrity status that Microsoft founder Bill Gates has reached, but history may be kinder to him in the long run. Berners-Lee is the creator of the World Wide Web, the user-friendly, graphics-based interface for navigating around the Internet. Millions around the globe visit the Web daily, and in a way, it has evolved into its own life form. Information on nearly any subject can be retrieved, vast bookstores quickly perused, and speeches of international leaders played back. Its potential for use (and abuse) is staggering, but it was Berners-Lee, the son of two computer scientists, and his simple hypertext program that made it all possible. "The slender, 40-year-old British

Alan Turing was a famous British mathematician and computer scientist who was determined to prove that machines at some point (possibly sometime in the future) would be able to surpass humans in intelligence levels. In order to prove this true, he created what became to be known as, “The Turing Test.” This test was basically to see if a computer could trick a person into believing that it was human. It would be asked a series of questions, which would be compared to responses of the human. It was designed so that one could judge the intelligence level of the computers’ responses. Turing believed that if a human could not tell the difference between another human and a computer, then it served as proof that a computer is equally intelligent as a human. Due to a large

In the future, we may be able to build a computer that is comparable to the human brain, but not until we truly understand one thing. Lewis Thomas talks about this in his essay, "Computers." He says, "It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious. We won't be able to construct machines like ourselves until we've understood this, and we're not even close" (Thomas 473). Thomas wrote this essay in 1974, and although we have made many technological advances