Computing & reading 5: The Future: What’s going on? Turing Machine Gallery, after George S. Boolos...
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Computing & reading 5: The Future: What’s going on?
Willard McCartyProfessor of Humanities ComputingKing’s College Londonstaff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty
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FIGURE 1. Арсений Михайлович Авраамов(Arsenij Mikhailovich Avraamov), conducting the Symphony of Sirens, Moscow, 1923
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FIGURE 2. Avraamov and Friedrich’s Wanderer
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FIGURE 3.Fellow researcher, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, May 2008 (Dictionary of Words in the Wild)
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FIGURE 4. The KWIC view of a literary text (Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-88)
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FIGURE 5.A. Michael Noll, Gaussian Quadratic(1962), after Picasso’s “Ma Jolie”
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FIGURE 6. Various compositions by AARON
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FIGURE 7.Marcel Duchamps, “Bottle drier” (1914, reconstructed 1964)
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Wikipedia, “Turing Machine Gallery”, after George S. Boolos and Richard C. Jeffrey, Computability and Logic, 3rd edn. (Cambridge, 2007): 21, Figure 3.1 (Boolos and Jeffrey describe the “poor mug” in the box but do not depict him in their figure.)
“We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions....”
Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times(1936)
Turing’s metaphor, in “On computable numbers” (1936)
FIGURE 8. A remarkable coincidence.
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FIGURE 9.Warren S. McCulloch (1898-1969), from the cover of Embodiments of Mind (1970)