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17-10-1986

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28-03-1987

29 min

Micro Live

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28-03-1987

Season 1987 · Episode 3 · Mar 28, 1987

In the last, extended edition of the series, Micro Live visits the Haymarket Theatre where the world of Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, is portrayed by Derek Jacobi in the stageplay Breaking the Code. Turing's computers in the 1940s and 1950s were 'first-generation' machines; now computer scientists are working on the 'fifth generation'. In Scotland the institute named after Turing has a world reputation in artificial intelligence work, but its software products are hardly used in the UK. In California, where seemingly limitless sums are thrown at research projects, 'Chinese temples', 'brainstorming' and robots for war veterans are the subjects of fifth generation work. Dr Ian Page of Oxford University puts such present and future work in perspective. (1987)

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Micro Live

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198329m8.3

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28-03-1987

Season 1987 · Episode 3 · Mar 28, 1987

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