The new polymer bank note, shown in an image provided by the Bank of England, was unveiled to the public nearly two years after officials first announced it would honor Turing. The new polymer bank note, shown in an image provided by the Bank of England, was unveiled to the public nearly two years after officials first announced it would honor Turing. The Bank of England has unveiled the new £50 note featuring mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, who helped the Allies win World War II with his code-breaking prowess but died an outcast after facing government persecution over his homosexuality. The bank revealed the note's design and features -- which include a number of clever visual references to Turing's work -- on Thursday, nearly two years after first announcing that it would honor Turing. The banknote will officially enter circulation on June 23, Turing's birthday.

Chris' note: Last night, 25,997 of your fellow readers tuned in to watch Silicon Valley insider Jeff Brown's Beyond Exponential summit. It's easy to see why it was so popular… Jeff has handed readers the chance to close out gains of 221%, 239%, and even 332% from stocks that harness the power of exponential growth. And after crisscrossing the U.S. during the pandemic, he revealed for the first time his No. 1 way to profit from exponential tech over the next decade. Then read on below to hear from Jeff on why one of the best hunting grounds for exponential growth plays is artificial intelligence (AI). In the summer of 1956, John McCarthy was a young assistant professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. He met with other scientists to discuss a topic that most people considered science fiction… thinking machines.

"Most professional scientists aim to be the first to publish their findings, because it is through dissemination that the work realises its value." So wrote mathematician James Ellis in 1987. By contrast, he went on, "the fullest value of cryptography is realised by minimising the information available to potential adversaries." Ellis, like Alan Turing, and so many of the driving forces in the development of computers and the Internet, worked in government signals intelligence, or SIGINT. Today, this covers COMINT (harvested from communications such as phone calls) and ELINT (from electronic emissions, such as radar and other electromagnetic radiation).

He was given extensive access to the secret files of the intelligence agency, although some limits were placed on what he could see and write about, including more recent interceptions of other country's diplomatic messages and some of the technical secrets of code-breaking.

New automated harvesters like the Harvest CROO Robotics strawberry robot utilizes AI to capture images of ripe berries ready to pick. Artificial intelligence, or AI as it is more commonly called, has become more prominent in conversations about technology these days. But what does it mean? And how might it shape the future of agriculture? In many ways, AI is already at work in agricultural research and in-field applications, but there is much more to come.

It is one of the most important sites in the history of computing and of Britain's victory against Nazism. But now, for the second time in little more than a decade, the future of Bletchley Park hangs in the balance. Over the weekend, it emerged that the museum at the wartime code-breaking centre was facing a financial crisis because of the coronavirus - and that meant it was preparing to lay off 35 people, a third of its workforce. After being forced to close for over three months, it's now opened with reduced capacity due to social distancing regulations and the museum is on course to lose £2m ($2.6m). Iain Standen, the chief executive of Bletchley Park, said the principal strength of the successful museum and visitor attraction that had been built over recent years was its people: "However, the economic impact of the current crisis is having a profound effect on the Trust's ability to survive.

The home of hacking in wartime Britain, Bletchley Park, was one of the victims of a major ransomware attack that hit software provider Blackbaud. The firm held data about people who had donated to the trust that manages the Bletchley Park museum. Harvard University has also joined the growing list of victims, which have mostly been charities and universities. Bletchley Park Trust said it was confident any exposed data was now secure. The trust added that data exposed to the hackers might have included names, dates of birth, email addresses, donation history and details of event attendance – but not credit and debit card details or bank account information.

In recognition of the fact that their obituary pages had been dominated by white men, in 2018 the New York Times published an obituary of the Countess Ada Lovelace. Alongside Grace Hopper and Katherine Johnson, Lovelace has become an icon for women in technology. So much so that the second Tuesday in October is recognised internationally as Ada Lovelace Day. Lovelace was from a wealthy background; her father was the poet Lord Byron and her mother, Anne Isabella Milbanke, the "princess of parallelograms", was a keen mathematician and social reformer. Social scientists of today would describe Lovelace as having high "science capital" – her well-connected parents meant her mentors and advisers were members of the British scientific elite, including the polymaths Mary Somerville and Charles Babbage.

Hephaestus, the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking and carpenters, was said to have fashioned artificial beings in the form of golden robots. Myth finally moved toward truth in the 20th century, as AI developed in series of fits and starts, finally gaining major momentum--and reaching a tipping point--by the turn of the millennium. Here's how the modern history of AI and ML unfolded, starting in the years just following World War II. In 1950, while working at the University of Manchester, legendary code breaker Alan Turing (subject of the 2014 movie The Imitation Game) released a paper titled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." It became famous for positing what became known as the "Turing test."

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