Biography:Christof Teuscher

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Short description: American computer scientist

Christof Teuscher is an author and editor who works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States .

Teuscher obtained MSc and PhD degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland . For his PhD, he explored Alan Turing's ideas on artificial intelligence and neural networks.[1]

He was the initiator and organizer of the Turing Day, an international workshop to commemorate the anniversary of Alan Turing's 90th birthday.[2]

Dr Teuscher's work has been distinguished with several awards.[citation needed]

Bibliography

  • Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker (ed.),[3][4][5] Springer, (2005), ISBN:3-540-20020-7
  • Turing's Connectionism. An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures,[6] Springer, London, (2002), ISBN:1-85233-475-4
  • From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers (ed. with Andrew Adamatzky), 2006
  • Unconventional Computing 2007 (ed. with Andrew Adamatzky, Lawrence Bull, Ben De Lacy Costello, Susan Stepney), 2007

References

  1. Hodges, Andrew (November 2006). "Book Review: The Essential Turing". Notices of the AMS 53 (10): 1190–1199. 
  2. "Author and editor keynote speaker for Krause lecture". The Marietta Times. March 25, 2013. http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/550691/Author-and-editor-keynote-speaker-for-Krause-lecture.html. Retrieved 20 November 2013. 
  3. Clark, Andy (1 December 2005). "It's raining, so I'll take an umbrella". London Review of Books 27 (23). http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n23/andy-clark/its-raining-so-ill-take-an-umbrella. 
  4. Love, Peter (July–August 2004). "The Legacy of Alan Turing". Computing in Science and Engineering 6 (4): 97–99. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2004.4. http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/cs/2004/04/c4097.html. 
  5. Casti, John L. (18 March 2004). "Touring artificial minds". Nature 428 (6980): 258. doi:10.1038/428258a. Bibcode2004Natur.428..258C. 
  6. Cooper, S. Barry (March 3, 2012). "Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/alan-turing-10-ideas-beyond-enigma_p3-3040095181/. Retrieved 20 November 2013. 

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