This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a ...

English computer scientist Alan Turing is most known for a thought experiment first devised in 1950 —- can a computer pass as a human?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. To clarify, there are lots of claims these days about ...

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s efforts with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Alan Turing's last paper may help produce fresh, clean drinking water someday soon ...

Whether or not you caught wind of the excited announcement that "Eugene Goostman," a computer program ("chatbot") devised by Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen, had passed the Turing ...

Notebook belonging to "The Imitation Game" code breaker sells for $1 million. — -- A notebook belonging to Alan Turing, the British code breaker who helped the allies win World War II, was sold ...

Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936. The device, ...