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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Happy Alan Turing day!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Norvig on Turing:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/what-happened-to-turings-thinking-machines/80639?tag=mantle_skin;content">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/what-happened-to-turings-thinking-machines/80639?tag=mantle_skin;content</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This being Alan Turing’s 100<sup>th</sup> birthday, and he being a patron saint of transhumanism, a proto-extropian in every way, I propose a temporary open season on anything having to do with Alan Turing, to last all weekend or longer if necessary. If you post your favorite Turing link, it doesn’t count against the usual voluntary posting guideline of 5 posts per day maximum.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have Turing on my list of the greatest or most consequential minds of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Note that my use of consequential can be the consequences in one’s own life, rather than in changing the course of history. If Turing isn’t in the top spot, he shares the top five with Einstein, Feynman, Hofstadter and John Nash.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>