"Turing" entries
To get things done, be "reasonably unreasonable"
John Graham-Cumming on how he got the UK government to apologize for its past treatment of Alan Turing.
In 2009, John Graham-Cumming, VP of engineering at Causata, Inc., started a campaign to get the UK to apologize for its treatment of Alan Turing in the 1950s. Here he talks about how he made the campaign a success.
Watson, Turing, and extreme machine learning
The real value of the Watson supercomputer will come from what it inspires.
While IBM's Watson supercomputer / Jeopardy contestant is a masterpiece of natural language processing, it's important to remember that it's just a learning tool that will help us solve more interesting problems.