computers

Technology: Difference between a disc and a disk

Disk and disc have very similar pronounciation, but they are very different: 2 alternative spelling for things that are generally thing and circular geometry. For the most part the words “disc” and “disk” can be used interchangeably to describe these flat, rounded objects. The terms and the objects appear in fields such as computers, media, science, […]

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the internet: The fascination and history of the term cyberspace

From the historical point of view the term cyberspace was coined by William Ford Gibson in his short story “Burning Chrome” (1982), nearly 30 years ago, and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the “noir prophet” of the cyberpunk subgenre. In the universe

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Technology Technology that changed the world /Dan-Marius.ro – my slice of internet / Oradea, Bihor, Romania

Some asked me not long ago what tehnologies changed the world to make is as we know it now. Even my favourite tehnology is the transistor, the list of them is so long it can take days or weeks to enumerate them. I’ll try mention a few of them, the one that I consider the most

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Computers Why the Turing test is a poor gauge for todays artificial intelligences /Dan-Marius.ro – my slice of internet / Oradea, Bihor, Romania

Computers Why the Turing test is a poor gauge for todays artificial intelligences /Dan-Marius.ro – my slice of internet / Oradea, Bihor, Romania. You might have noticed the huge progess of the computer processing power and the development of the programming algorithms in the laste decades, especially if you have lived them. This evolution of technology made

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Computers What is the Turing test /Dan-Marius.ro – my slice of internet / Oradea, Bihor, Romania

Computers What is the Turing test /Dan-Marius.ro – my slice of internet / Oradea, Bihor, Romania. The Turing test was introduce by the English mathematician Alan Turing in 1950 and it’s a test of machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour. The 1950 paper called Computing Machinery and Inteligence opens withe words: “I propose to consider the question

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