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It was in 1948 that Alan Turing wrote a little-known report entitled “Intelligent Machinery” [192, 195]. At that time, he was employed at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London where he worked on the design of an electronic computer—the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). Turing never had great interest in publicizing his ideas, so the paper went unpublished until 1968, 14 years after his death. The report first appeared in an edited collection by Evans and Robertson [55] in 1968 and the following year in the journal Machine Intelligence [192].
Turing believes maachines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think. — Alan Turing in a letter to Norman Routledge, 1952 (see also preface of Alan Turing: The Enigma [91]).
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Teuscher, C. (2002). Introduction. In: Turing’s Connectionism. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0161-1_1
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