Tomorrow
Academia

Manchester, United Kingdom

University of Manchester

The first stored-program computer ran here, and the question of whether a machine can think was posed here in testable form.

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2 key findings1 timeline milestones1 sources to follow

Key findings

  1. 1950

    Computing Machinery and Intelligence

    Alan Turing

    Replaced 'can machines think?' with the imitation game — a behavioural, decidable test — and pre-answered the standard objections.

    Why it matters here · Every claim about model 'understanding' in vendor marketing is still arguing with this paper, usually without knowing it.

    Mind, 1950 →
  2. 2018

    SpiNNaker

    Steve Furber and team

    A million ARM cores wired to model spiking neural networks in biological real time.

    Why it matters here · The largest neuromorphic machine built — the reference point for event-driven, low-power AI hardware.

    1,000,000 cores

On the history timeline

Milestones on the 1943 → today timeline credited to this institution.

  • 1950Computing Machinery and IntelligenceAlan TuringFoundations

What to follow

Department of Computer Science

Research lab · Continuous

Home of SpiNNaker, the million-core neuromorphic machine, plus AI and advanced processor research.

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Tomorrow. (2026). University of Manchester — key findings and research feeds [Research tracker entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/academia/manchester
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-academia-manchester,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {University of Manchester — key findings and research feeds},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/academia/manchester}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}