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Turing’s Connectionism

An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Christof Teuscher

    1. Logic Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), EPFL-DI-LSL Ecublens, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • Contains a Foreword by B. Jack Copeland and D. Proudfoot
  • Develops Turing's ideas, by building his machines and training them using evolutionary algorithms
  • Goes beyond Turing's ideas, and proposes new machines

Part of the book series: Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DISCMATH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Christof Teuscher
    Pages 1-15

  3. Intelligent Machinery

    • Christof Teuscher
    Pages 17-62

  4. Synthesis of Logical Functions and Digital Systems with Turing Networks

    • Christof Teuscher
    Pages 63-82

  5. Organizing Unorganized Machines

    • Christof Teuscher
    Pages 83-119

  6. Network Properties and Characteristics

    • Christof Teuscher
    Pages 121-167

  7. Epilogue

    • Christof Teuscher
    Pages 169-170

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 171-200
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Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was the first to carry out substantial re­ search in the field now known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was thinking about machine intelligence at least as early as 1941 and during the war cir­ culated a typewritten paper on machine intelligence among his colleagues at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC & CS), Bletchley Park. Now lost, this was undoubtedly the earliest paper in the field of AI. It probably concerned machine learning and heuristic problem-solving; both were topics that Turing discussed extensively during the war years at GC & CS, as was mechanical chess [121]. In 1945, the war in Europe over, Turing was recruited by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)! in London, his brief to design and develop an electronic stored-program digital computer-a concrete form of the universal Turing machine of 1936 [185]. Turing's technical report "Proposed Electronic 2 Calculator" , dating from the end of 1945 and containing his design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), was the first relatively complete spec­ ification of an electronic stored-program digital computer [193,197]. (The document "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC", produced by John von Neumann and the Moore School group at the University of Pennsylvania in May 1945, contained little engineering detail, in particular concerning elec­ tronic hardware [202].

Authors and Affiliations

  • Logic Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), EPFL-DI-LSL Ecublens, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Christof Teuscher

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