Re: turing machine...who cares? 2

[Gunnar Blix <blix@ai.uiuc.edu>]

Please keep this crap out of comp.ai, as you clearly have no clue what
you are writing about, and as you clearly don't read comp.ai, and as
this is repeat of previously expressed opinion that does not
contribute.  I also doubt that the other AI newsgroups are interested.

					- Gunnar

In comp.ai you write:

>	turing's paper was published in
>		1938
>	however,
>	the ideas were kicking around
>	english academic circles before then...
>	by
>		1939
>	this reached
>		bell telephone laboratories
>	where a group was developing automated binary
>	arithmetic systems for actual,  practical,
>		calculations...
>	the features of turing's proposal regarding
>		arithmetic operations
>	were studied with great interest there and,
>	on review,  were viewed to be comedic...

>	in fairness...
>	reasonably,
>	turing himself,  would not have proposed these
>	for a practical system...
>	this not withstanding...
>	turing's machine was of little practical...
>	or theoretical interest...
>	by
>		1940
>	in advanced groups advancing such development!


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>Ralph Silverman
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Gunnar Blix					    blix@cs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois             http://www-ilg.ai.uiuc.edu/~blix/

Nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.    -- Cicero


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Ralph Silverman
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