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Photovores: intelligent robots are constructed from castoffs

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University of Ontario hardware engineer Michael Tilden has created at least 32 robots from discarded electrical and mechanical equipment. Some walk, some wheel toward light and some store energy in a capacitor until it is released in a hop.

Author: Dewdney, A.K.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
Design and construction, Robots, Tilden, Mark

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Turing test

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Computer scientist Alan Turing developed a test to determine if human judges could tell if they were interacting with another person or a computer program. In some cases, the judges had great difficulty distinguishing between the two.

Author: Dewdney, A.K.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
Research, Usage, Testing, Machine theory, Artificial intelligence, Turing machines, Turing machine (Mathematical model)

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Alan Turing's forgotten ideas in computer science

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Hydrocomputation and neural networks are current topics for exceeding the limits of algorithmic computing, but British genius Alan Tutin anticipated the concepts before 1948.

Author: Copeland, B. Jack, Proudfoot, Diane
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
Mathematicians, Computer science, Computer science mathematics

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Subjects list: Innovations, Turing, Alan Mathison
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