PHYS-P 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Turing Test, 7Digital, Phase-Change Memory
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Phys-p150 lecture 32 digital logic and processors. Computing has operated the same for many decades. Only recently has the paradigm shifted to what we are using today. Digital computers have been a reality for many years: but a more recent innovation is electric computers. Think of digital as binary (changing 1s and 0s: switches are utilized for binary because they have two separate states. 1936: alexander turing imagines a machine that ran on instructions encoded on a particular tape: proved that essentially anything that could be computed could be done so on a device like the one he designed. Also famous for turing test : determining whether you are communicating with a human or with artificial intelligence. Used to perform a variety of tasks as their name suggests: numbers, data, text, etc. Digital processor function is to change 1s and 0s into other 1s and 0s: 1 and 0 are also referred to as true or false .
