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Episode 20

Fred Harris and Ian McNaught-Davis In the last, extended edition of the series, Micro Live visits the Haymarket Theatre and the world of Alan Turing , the father of modern computing, 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.

English
  • Originally Aired March 28, 1987
  • Network BBC Two
  • Notes Is a season finale
  • Created August 30, 2023 by
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  • Modified August 30, 2023 by
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