Addressing the Question “What is a Program Text?” via Turing Scholarship

Daylight, Edgar G.; Perold, Colette

doi:10.1109/mahc.2021.3121590

IEEE Annals Hist. Comput.

2021

DOI: 10.1109/mahc.2021.3121590

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Addressing the Question “What is a Program Text?” via Turing Scholarship

Edgar G. Daylight

Colette Perold²

Abstract: or decades, a range of disciplines (from engineering and computer science to philosophy, law, and history) have seen debates over the nature of computer programs. Various scholars-including

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True Turing: A Bird’s-Eye View

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Alan Turing is often portrayed as a materialist in secondary literature. In the present article, I suggest that Turing was instead an idealist, inspired by Cambridge scholars, Arthur Eddington, Ernest Hobson, James Jeans and John McTaggart. I outline Turing’s developing thoughts and his legacy in the USA to date. Specifically, I contrast Turing’s two notions of computability (both from 1936) and distinguish between Turing’s “machine intelligence” in the UK and the more well-known “artificial intelligence” in the USA. According to my proposed historical interpretation, Turing did not view computations in the real world to be exhaustively and deterministically characterized by his automatic machines from 1936.

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Addressing the Question “What is a Program Text?” via Turing Scholarship

Abstract: or decades, a range of disciplines (from engineering and computer science to philosophy, law, and history) have seen debates over the nature of computer programs. Various scholars-including

Cited by 1 publication

References 13 publications

True Turing: A Bird’s-Eye View

True Turing: A Bird’s-Eye View

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