Turing's imaginary oracle database reveals a hard physical limit on how knowledge can be stored, forcing a deeper question about what intelligence actually is. Any machine that passes the Turing Test ...

The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...