Can machines think? The originator of modern, electronic computing asked this question in terms of the now famous Turing test. Turing proposed it as a variant of an “imitation game” in which, using ...

Biological research is in crisis, and in Alan Turing's work there is much to guide us. Technology gives us the tools to analyse organisms at all scales, but we are drowning in a sea of data and ...

Such is Turing's legacy: that of a nested chain of pretenses, each pointing not to reality, but to the caricature of another idea, device, individual, or concept. It's hard to overestimate Alan Turing ...