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.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
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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.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
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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.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
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