Alien Intelligence.
KIASMA
In 1982, Steven Spielberg brought us alien intelligence in an appealing shell. Cute, and family-values friendly, E.T. made movie audiences feel human. Now, some two decades later, Kiasma puts on a show with alien intelligence (read: computers) as the star. But curator Erkki Huhtamo is all too aware that Turing 1. Turing - Alan Turing.
2. Turing - R.C. Holt & J.R. Cordy , U Toronto, 1982. Descendant of Concurrent Euclid, an airtight super-Pascal. Used mainly for teaching programming at both high school and university level.
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["Turing Language Report", R.C. Holt & J.R.'s offspring aren't as cuddly as Hollywood extraterrestrials, and he pulls no punches when it comes to the dark side of artificial intellection. Artists like Zoe Beloff, Perry Hoberman, and Christoph Hildebrand Hildebrand: see Gregory VII, Saint. contribute various iterations One repetition of a sequence of instructions or events. For example, in a program loop, one iteration is once through the instructions in the loop. See iterative development. of conceptual techno-art--some of them pointedly scary--in this fourteen-project show, accompanied by a symposium on artificial life and a film series on the history of computers. Feb. 12-May 28.
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