http://www.radio4all.net/program/64201Podcast for Program: Turing TestWed, 07 Nov 2012 05:09:26 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/64201" Turing was a British mathematician and logician. In the first half of the 20th century he articulated a conceptual framework surrounding so-called “mechanical thinking devices”. His ideas were entirely theoretical. Because Alan Turing lived before the first electronic computers were actually built. All the same, many of his ideas remain at the foundation of theories of computation and the field of computer science. One question Turing thought about was: Are there circumstances under which a computing machine could be said to think? ..." Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/turing/Nancy CaseyWed, 07 Nov 2012 05:09:26 +0000