This year is the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's work and to celebrate, we went to see the museum at Bletchley Park. While we were there we were to try to learn at least one new thing about computers or computing in general. If I were to tell you I only learned one new thing while there, I would be lying to you. Learning how military information could be pumped out of a 5 bit punchline into a machine with no RAM was rather surprising.
In addition to the museums and tours given around Bletchley, there was also a competition involving creation of a computer chat bot program that was attempting to imitate a human so much as to trick the judges into thinking that they are humans. As to my expectations, there was no chat bot program that passed the test and all of the judges were able to find the computer and the human respondent. While that was all fun within itself, the group felt done with the exhibit rather quickly and I felt that everyone was ready to take the rest of the day off and do nothing of extreme academic worth.
Hopefully the laundry room will open up so I can do my overdue laundry, I'm feeling... salty.
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