Listen to this ODNB podcast to learn about the life of Alan Turing (1912 - 1954); the pioneer of computing.

In the 1930s, Turing developed his 'universal Turing machine', which - as a single machine which can be turned to any task by an appropriate program - embodied the principle of the modern computer. During the Second World War, Turing worked at Bletchley Park where he led efforts to break the German Enigma code. Post-war Turing was convicted of homosexuality and was subject to a programme of chemical castration, prior to his death from cyanide poisoning in 1954. 

This biography of Alan Turing, written by Andrew Hodges, is taken from the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'. Take a look at the ODNB Website to discover more about the people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.

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MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage." "Rotten History" and some correspondence from listeners follow the interview.

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Kim Carson - Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era

From fingers counting in the dark...
To dreams that light up every spark...
The digital dream is calling...

Way back when, we counted on our hands,
Simple tools, the first commands.
Abacus beads in ancient lands,
Mechanical minds, the first demands.

Pascal's wheels in sixteen forty-two,
First digital calculator, breaking through.
Jacquard's loom with punch cards new,
Programmable patterns, a breakthrough clue.

Babbage dreamed of engines grand,
Analytical power, a master plan.
Ada Lovelace, first to understand,
The poetry in numbers, a digital brand.

Each invention builds upon the last,
A chain reaction, growing fast.
From simple tools to dreams so vast,
The digital revolution's cast.

We're living in the digital dream,
From abacus to A.I. supreme.
Every step, every scheme,
Building the future, the digital dream!

Vacuum tubes sparked the electronic age,
Transistors shrinking, turning the page.
ENIAC roared with computational rage,
First electronic brain, a digital sage.

Turing's mind saw patterns clear,
Computability, the frontier.
Von Neumann's architecture, year by year,
The blueprint for everything we hold dear.

Integrated circuits, smaller and faster,
Moore's Law driving the digital master.
Personal computers, the future's caster,
Internet connecting, no disaster.

Exponential growth, the power's insane,
Doubling every two years, breaking the chain.
From kilobytes to terabytes, the gain,
The digital dream's eternal reign.

We're living in the digital dream,
From abacus to A.I. supreme.
Every step, every scheme,
Building the future, the digital dream!

A.I. began with rules so strict,
Expert systems, logic's trick.
Machine learning changed the script,
Patterns hidden, now we're equipped.

Deep learning's neural nets so deep,
Image recognition, promises to keep.
Large language models, knowledge they reap,
GPT and BERT, the digital leap.

But A.I.'s not magic, it's math refined,
Statistics and patterns, carefully designed.
Human creativity, the spark behind,
Technology's servant, not master of mind.

What is consciousness? What is thought?
Can machines dream? Can they be taught?
The Turing test, the questions we've sought,
Human and A.I., the future we've wrought.

We're living in the digital dream,
From abacus to A.I. supreme.
Every step, every scheme,
Building the future, the digital dream!

The digital dream is ours to build,
With human hands and human will.
Technology serves, it doesn't kill,
The future's bright, the future's real.
From simple tools to A.I.'s thrill,
We're living in the digital dream...


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