Claim · 1948 · event · Stated in source · Supported

“Intelligent Machinery” (1948) credits A. M. Turing as its author.

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Alan Turing → authored → Intelligent Machinery (National Physical Laboratory report)

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Claim and evidence

Alan Turingauthored ↓Intelligent Machinery (National Physical Laboratory report)

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1948 · event Records dated 1948 →

Scope and limitsCredited authorship of this expression; it says nothing about priority for the ideas discussed.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

‘Intelligent Machinery’, a report by A. M. Turing (1948)

National Physical Laboratory, facsimile of the report (PDF) · 1948

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Source excerpt

“A Report by A. M. Turing”

Location in source Title sheet (PDF page 2)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-04

Source details and check notes

Authors: Alan Turing
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-03 (SHA-256 8751a5e654f17de3684856d8ccff6c81bb31f22a28cc9f2d6ee55202b7d78088). Facsimile of the typed report: cover label ‘Intelligent Machinery / A.M. Turing / (1948)’, title sheet with ‘(1948)’, report pp. 1–2 (PDF pages 3–4) read; on p. 2 the objection label is corrected by hand.
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Accessed: 2026-11-03
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Alan Turing, “‘Intelligent Machinery’, a report by A. M. Turing (1948)”, 1948.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, antecedent texts (research/prehistory). Read on the page image of the title sheet for the candidate pack. Facsimile without a text layer; quotations read from the page images (pdftoppm at 100 dpi, PDF pages 1–4) on 2026-11-03. Same SHA-256 as the copy a second check by a model of another family read. No human editorial review.

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