What exactly is the Turing test? What does it mean to pass the test? And what is its significance to the future of artificial intelligence? Huma Shah, co-author of 'Turing's Imitation Game: Conversations with the Unknown' is in the hot seat...
Read MoreThe second Tuesday of every October, the world celebrates women in science with Ada Lovelace Day. Established officially in 2009, the event’s name honors mathematician and writer Augusta Ada Lovelace (also known to some as the first computer programmer). Find out more about this history of Ada Lovelace Day In the award-winning The Computing Universe by Tony Hey […]
Read MoreTuring's Imitation Game, commonly known as the Turing Test, is fundamental to the science of artificial intelligence. Involving an interrogator conversing with hidden identities, both human and machine, the test strikes at the heart of any questions about the capacity of machines to behave as humans. Kevin Warwick and Huma Shah, authors of 'Turing's Imitation Game: Conversations with the Unknown', tell us more....
Read MoreAn introduction of The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice by co-editor Dr. Fiona Barlow
Read MoreDrawing on his extensive experience in transition economies, Christopher A. Hartwell explains the current economic divergence between Ukraine and Poland.
Read MoreLast week we celebrated the launch of the fourth and final volume in the acclaimed series ‘The Letters of Samuel Beckett’. The project has taken around 20 years to complete, and a few staff members from the Press attended the celebrations in Paris along with the volume’s editors George Craig and Dan Gunn. There were […]
Read MoreMartha Dow Fehsenfeld, Founding Editor, of the Beckett Letters project was authorised by Samuel Beckett to edit his correspondence in 1985. Here she recalls her first meeting with Beckett and how his attitude to publishing his letters changed as he neared the end of his life. (Pictured clockwise l-r: Samuel Beckett, Lois Overbeck and Martha Fehsenfeld)
Read MoreAll leadership is ideological; all business is ideological. I’ve made this argument in an earlier blog, “The Myth of Pragmatic Leadership,” as well as in Discourse on Leadership: A Critical Analysis. Over the weekend, this matter burst into the public spotlight with the revelation that one of the Presidential candidates claimed a nearly $1 billion […]
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