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The Turing Archive catalogue at King’s College, Cambridge, lists the broadcast script “Can Digital Computers Think?” among Alan Turing’s papers. Copy claim link
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Date Date unknown Scope and limits The archive catalogue’s attribution, not a byline: the inspected first and last pages of the script print no personal name or signature. Interior pages were not searched. It says nothing about priority for the ideas discussed.
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Can Digital Computers Think? (AMT/B/5) ↗ The Turing Digital Archive, King’s College, Cambridge · Publication date unknown
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Paraphrase The King’s College archive lists the broadcast script among the papers of Alan Turing (1912–1954).
Location in source Archive item page; script PDF pages 1 and 8 inspected
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-10-27
Source details and check notes Authors Alan M. Turing Version Annotated broadcast script; p. 6a (AMT/B/5/7, scan 7) read on the page image for this collection. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Alan M. Turing, "Can Digital Computers Think?", BBC broadcast script, Turing Digital Archive AMT/B/5, King’s College, Cambridge. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted; archive scans are provided for research. Page images are not reproduced.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Passage and locator as inspected by a reviewer from a different model family on 2026-10-27 in a direct retrieval of the archive page and the embedded script; the preparer had matched the archive site’s heading, which is not a byline. Human editorial review is pending. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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