VISUALS FOR COMPUTERS VERSUS HUMANS LECTURE OF JUNE 1, 2010 (A)

Copyright ©2010 by T. Pavlidis

Alan Turing (1912-1954) - He laid the Theoretical Foundations of Modern Computing and also led the effort to break the German encryption system (Enigma machine) during WW II. "Turing Award" (equivalent to the Nobel for computer science and technology) is named in his honor.

He proposed a test for determining whether a machine can match human intelligence that have a modern application in the web.

Completely
Automated
Public
Turing test to tell
Computers and
Humans
Apart

 

HOW WEB MERCHANTS (such as Amazon) LEARN WHAT YOU LIKE
Each customer is linked to all the books she has bought. If several people bought book A and the same people also bought book D the books are linked. (We skip the details of how this is done.) Then when you buy book A the web site tells you: "Customers that bought A also bought D."