University of Calgary

This lecture will explain the Turing Test as well as Turing's more general views concerning the prospects for artificial intelligence and examine both the criticisms of the test and Turing's rebuttals.

Soroosh will be speaking tomorrow on log structures in algebraic geometry. These play a role in looking at the singular limits of elliptic curves.

We're following Jay Pottharst's notes, available at http://math.bu.edu/people/potthars/writings/log.str.pdf

We're following Jay Pottharst's notes, available at http://math.bu.edu/people/potthars/writings/log.str.pdf, and the lectures by Arthur Ogus at http://math.berkeley.edu/~ogus/preprints/log_book/logbook.pdf.

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