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Alan Turing's Contribution to World History

November 30, 2006

Jack Copeland writer, professor, philosophy, University of Canterbury

Jack Copeland help celebrate the 70th anniversary of Alan Turing's seminal paper "On Computable Numbers".

Series:

Topics: Media & Technology | Science & Nature

Tags: History | Military & Warfare | Engineering | Marine Technology | Philosophy | Robotics & AI

Presented By WGBH and MIT Technology and Culture Forum:

MIT Technology and Culture Forum

Hired Guns? / For Sale: Motherhood

Lecture Nine: "Hired Guns?"

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I

CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol

The Moral Side of Murder / The Case for Cannibalism

Lecture One: "The Moral Side of Murder"

What’s a Fair Start? / What Do We Deserve?

Lecture Fifteen: "What's a Fair Start?"

Pinker and Goldstein: Science, Fiction, and God

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, philosopher and author of the new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses mind-body problems with her husband, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.

Putting a Price Tag on Life / How to Measure Pleasure

Lecture Three: "Putting a Price Tag on Life"

Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction

Author: Jack Copeland

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (1993)

Binding: Paperback, 328 pages

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