Micro Live

Last Episode - Turing Play, RISC machines (1987x11)

Data di messa in onda: Mar 28, 1987

The final live programme from the popular 1980's BBC series 'Micro Live', broadcast early 1987. Micro Live sees a play about the father of modern computing, Alan Turing, and finds out about the latest research projects in California. 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.