Turing at 100

Lord Sharkey said, "If my Bill becomes law, as I hope it will, then this will finally go some way towards acknowledging the debt we all owe to Alan Turing and grant him the free pardon he so clearly deserves."

• Rebecca J. Rosen
• July 25, 2012

Such is Turing's legacy: that of a nested chain of pretenses, each pointing not to reality, but to the caricature of another idea, device, individual, or concept.

• Ian Bogost
• July 16, 2012

Turing's biggest proof was its own limitation: computers can do more than imitate men.

• Michael Gibson
• June 23, 2012

Everyday life in the 21st century is a barrage of Turing tests -- and it's pushing us all to find a voice that is distinctly our own.

• Brian Christian
• June 23, 2012

Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him

• Pamela McCorduck
• June 23, 2012

John Turing's meditation on the life of his younger brother Alan. "He lived ... in some strange world of his own, full of nervous tensions of which we lesser mortals know nothing."

• John Turing
• June 22, 2012

Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension.

• Daniel C. Dennett
• June 22, 2012

For years the Turing Test has been used to compare humans with computers. Now sociologists are using it to compare humans with each other.

• Evan Selinger
• June 20, 2012