ABSTRACT
In 1950, Alan Turing (1912-1954), one of the founders of modern computer science, published a paper with the title “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Electronic computers were just starting to be used outside of math and science, and they were being adopted by businesses and other organizations. There was widespread interest in this new technology, and people began to wonder just what these machines were capable of doing. The topic of Turing’s paper was the nature of human intelligence, specifically whether a machine could ever be able to handle problems routinely solved by humans.
