Sentences with phrase «making turing»

He manages the difficult feat of making Turing distinctly strange and off - putting, yet somehow keeps us fascinated and always rooting for him.

In TURING»S CATHEDRAL, available in March, renowned science historian George Dyson follows the eccentric, brilliant engineers and computer coders who made Turing's design a reality — and in the process paved the way for the hydrogen bomb.

That they destroyed his life for the same reason makes Turing's story one of cruel tragedy.

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But this isn't the only work of Turing's that's made a splash of late.

Lately, it seems like the Internet has become saturated with conceited articles with cliché titles the likes of «How I Made a Million Dollars before Turing 21,» or «10 Life Hacks to Become a Millionaire... and Awesome,» or «I'm So Cool, I'm a Millionaire, So You Should Listen to Me.»

Martin Shkreli, the Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC executive who drew criticism in August over a dramatic jump in a prescription drug price, made headlines Thursday for a different kind of price increase: a seven-fold surge in the shares of a microcap pharmaceutical company.

Long before Martin Shkreli was arrested in New York Thursday morning on securities fraud charges, the outspoken, 32 - year - old chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG had made himself famous.

Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli is now stating that he wishes he'd raised the price on the AIDS drug Daraprim by more than the 5000 % that made him the object of scorn worldwide.

Back in the «50s, technologist Alan Turing said that true artificial intelligence would be a reality if a computer could fool a significant number of those judging (like more than 30 percent) into making them believe they were talking to a fellow human.

A toy AI that could hold a conversation of sorts and make some headway against a Turing test.

This prompted the idea of joining forces with the Food and Agricul - ture Organisation of the United Nations and using our know - how and con - tacts to make our contribution to fighting global food losses.»

Machine learning is increasingly being used to make sensitive decisions, says Matt Kusner at the Alan Turing Institute in London.

Turing is often associated with breaking codes, but in 1943 he also spent time making them.

«Passing the chemical Turing test: Making artificial and real cells talk.»

Turing made front - page headlines after it bought the rights to Daraprim in August 2015.

With no rival manufacturers making the drug, Turing quickly raised the price for a tablet of Daraprim to $ 750 from $ 13.50.

This is a tall story to say the least; and the rapid telling of this crucial episode makes too light of the content of Turing's thesis.

A machine made of DNA offers a new concept for a non-deterministic universal Turing machine that could solve problems faster than existing computers

Alan Turing, British mathematician and logician, who made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis,...

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I was not one of A Beautiful Mind's historical accuracy Nazis, who used the film's marginalization of the real John Nash as a way to bash the film (for my money, it was the horrid screenplay and direction that made it such a painful film to watch, not its artistic rewriting of history), though the erasing of Turing in Enigma is rather distressing.

His Turing is clearly (to a guy in the middle of all this sudden awareness of Autism) somewhere on the Autism spectrum, incapable of building relationships and understanding metaphors, making him the perfect person, in his (mis) understanding of the world, to break codes.

Right now he's making a film about troubled wartime codebreaker Alan Turing.

The Making of The Imitation Game: A twenty two minute featurette finds cast and crew interviews from Moore, Knightley, and Cumberbatch, along with pictures and facts pertaining to the real Alan Turing.

Lauded by Winston Churchill as being the man who made the greatest single contribution to the war effort, the film is both a celebration of Turing's life and an infuriating look at the circumstances that turned him from a hero into a pariah.

When puberty hits, Alex Lawther (the young Alan Turing in «The Imitation Game») takes over as Christopher Robin, whose fame makes him an irresistible target for bullies after he is sent away to a boarding school.

Marketed with urgent desperation as a film exploring the persecution of homosexuality while making a marked statement about the recuperation of the facts concerning the genius of Alan Turing, the accolades bestowed on this otherwise well mounted but incredibly milquetoast production is the political statement that the film simply does not have the courage to muster on its own.

However, as Keira Knightley's Joan Clarke lists off his achievements in an emotional monologue, followed by the factoids that seem mandatory for any true story end credits, it is impossible to deny the sacrifices made and lives saved, by Alan Turing.

Perhaps this makes it fitting that Cumberbatch's Turing comes across as an amalgamation of his previous roles.

Like Sherlock, his Turing is clearly the smartest man in the room, yet his body betrays his intellectual superiority at every opportunity, thanks to the occasional stutter and the reluctance to make eye contact.

Director Morten Tyldum tells the story on three levels, in its present, flashing back to Turing's solitary school days and forward to the last days of his life when, his war records expunged because of secrecy, Turing becomes a victim of the British version of McCarthyism making it a tragedy snatched from the jaws of victory.

From there he made a movie based upon the life and achievements of British mathematician Alan Turing, the 2014 Oscar - nominated The Imitation Game in which Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed the father of what we recognize today as artificial intelligence.

It makes the clunky storytelling moments more apparent, whether it's an all - too - convenient turn in character motivation (Turing goes from «asshole» to «top bloke» by buying apples) or a piece of narration from Captain Obvious («I've got to separate the carrots from the peas» as he separates the carrots from the peas).

But even though its construction feels (* cough *) formulaic and (* ahem *) by - the - numbers, it's all in service of making Alan Turing's legend known — as well as the tragically unjust actions taken upon him years afterwards.

While the «modified» facts may raise an eyebrow and / or finger, The Imitation Game makes the «legend» of Turing abundantly clear: he was a flawed, courageous, ingenious individual who served a society that did not serve him or «his kind»....

The Norwegian director made his English language debut with the WWII set drama about mathematics genius Alan Turing...

Dance makes a blustering heavy of Denniston, who attempts to sabotage Turing's electromagnetic «bombe» machine, designed to decipher Enigma - encrypted Morse messages.

Having already established himself as a novelist with the cult classic «The Beach» and as a screenwriter by penning the likes of «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine» and adaptations of «Never Let Me Go» and «Dredd,» Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's «Ex Machina,» a story set in the not - too - distant future about a programmer (Domnhall Gleeson) sent by his technological genius boss (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to a new and advanced form of artificial intelligence, a beautiful humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander).

The manufactured being at the center of the film, Ava — a clear descendant of «the future Eve» — begins as an object of inquiry, a machine to be run through its paces, a Turing test made flesh.

Awkwardly passing apples around the office and doing his best to make small talk, he gradually earns the others» loyalty and respect, even inspiring a mass protest when a commanding officer (Charles Dance) threatens to destroy the complicated machine Turing has designed.

The Imitation Game doesn't concern itself with making sure we understand what Turing is doing.

Kudos, too, to Charles Dance and Mark Strong, both able to make lasting impressions with limited screen time as Turing's superior officers.

Despite his ability to decipher Nazi communications and make a significant contribution to the Allies winning World War II, Alan Turing was later arrested for homosexual behavior and was given the choice of a prison sentence or accepting forced hormonal treatments.

For many years Alan Turing has been credited with the invention of the modern computer, but his major contributions to the war effort have only recently been made public.

And it's a question that has remained unanswered for some time, because in an attempt to prevent tuners making the 335i faster than the M3, BMW encrypted the processor to a level that would have foxed Alan Turing.

Throughout the narrative The Turing Test attempts to tackle a lot of sci - fi staples, including questions about humanity, what makes a person and whether an A.I. can become essentially human, before wrapping up using the kind of ambiguous ending that writers always seem to think is clever To be brutally honest it's never as smart as it would like to believe.

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His wry sense of humor was out in full force in this homage to John Coltrane, an exquisite installation made with coal and grand - piano tops that featured a minia - ture train running along a circuitous track.