Plotting

 Information Technology



Mechanical Chess Player

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Transactions of the Ninth Conference March 20-21, 1952, Macy Foundation, New York, N. Y.


Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine

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Cybernetics. TransactIons of the Eighth Conference March 15-16, 1951, Macy Foundation, New York, N. Y .


Programming a digital computer to learn

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Philosophical Magazine, (Ser. 7, Vol. xliii, Dec. 1952). PDF of first page only. Offprint in Turing archive.



Investigations on Synaptic Transmission

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Transactions of the Ninth Conference March 20-21, 1952, Macy Foundation, New York, N. Y.


Prediction and Entropy of Printed English

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"A new method of estimating the entropy and redundancy of a language is described. This method exploits the knowledge of the language statistics possessed by those who speak the language, and depends on experimental results in prediction of the next letter when the preceding text is known. Results of experiments in prediction are given, and some properties of an ideal predictor are developed."Bell Systems Technical Journal 30 pp. 50-64


Can machines think?

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Also in  Discovery, 14:151; and in Proceedings of the IRE, October, 41:1230 Spectator, No. 6424, 177-178,



A chess-playing machine

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See also: Scientific American. Reprinted In J. R. Newman (Ed.), The world of mathematics Vol. 4, (1956). New York: Simon and Schuster, 2124-2133