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.
2 key findings1 timeline milestones1 sources to follow
Key findings
- 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.
- 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