Science District | The Turing Cluster

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Transcript
The Mastership Society has four zones, each identified by a particular mastership. The first zone on our path is the Science District. It is especially famous for its Turing Cluster, a supercomputer that can simulate any chemical process at scale. It is indispensable for an industrial port city like Rotterdam. 

The Turing Cluster is named after Alan Turing who developed digital computing long ago. But he didn’t refer to computers as such. A computer in his time was a person who did calculations. Turing talked about Universal Machines instead of computers. 

And it’s perhaps a better definition of what a computer really is. A machine that can be any machine in the world. After all, a computer or a smartphone can be a television, a typewriter, an encyclopaedia. And if you add arms and legs: it’s a robot. 

Alan Turing believed that his universal machine could eventually be able to operate as a human brain. At least inasmuch as we could understand the brain in mathematical terms. And thus it was Turing who in the 1950s planted the seed for the artificial intelligent machines of today and the future.