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Rupa Patel reflects to Plus on her work as a financial engineer

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When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.

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March 2008
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artificial intelligence

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Will we ever be able to make computers that think and feel? If not, why not? And what has all this got to do with tiles? Plus talks to Sir Roger Penrose about all this and more.

Tags: tessellation : aperiodic tiling : Grand Unified Theory : quantum mechanics : Turing test : artificial intelligence : complex number : human consciousness : non-algorithmic thought : non-recursive mathematics


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A test invented by the mathematician Alan Turing in 1950 is helping to stop spammers.

Tags: algorithm : Theoretical computing : Turing test : artificial intelligence


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What do computers and light switches have in common? Yutaka Nishiyama illuminates the connection between light bulbs, logic and binary arithmetic.

Tags: Boolean algebra : computer science : logic : logic gate : artificial intelligence : truth table


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Mike Yates looks at the life and work of wartime code-breaker Alan Turing. Find out what types of numbers we can't count and why there are limits on what can be achieved with Turing machines.

Tags: Turing Machine : Theoretical computing : Turing test : artificial intelligence : halting problem : diagonalisation argument : Cantor's Theorem : unsolvability