] I PROPOSE to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'

The origin of the Turing Test.

computing machinery and intelligence - a.m. turing, 1950

] Right now, $1,000 of computing power is between that of
] the brain of an insect and a mouse, at least in terms of
] hardware capacity. We will cross the threshold of the
] hardware capacity of the human brain by 2020 ...
Kurzweil proposes reverse-engineering the human brain as an
approach to machine intelligence.

eSchool News online

] Weaves, says Varadarajan, is a framework that translates
] codes from any programming language into code modules to
] create a highly accurate design, development and analysis
] environment. In effect, Weaves can thread together
] different codes, bindings and other elements to create a
] virtual world that tricks programs into believing they
] are running in their actual intended environment. The
] environments can range from something as relatively
] simple as a Web browser to as complex as a global
] network.

Weaving a Virtual World - Under Development : Virtual Internet - CIO Magazine Jan 15,2003

] TOP500 SUPERCOMPUTER SITES
]
] The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a
] reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in
] high-performance computing. Twice a year, a list of the
] sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems is
] assembled and released. The best performance on the
] Linpack benchmark is used as performance measure for
] ranking the computer systems. The list contains a variety
] of information including the system specifications and
] its major application areas.

TOP500 Supercomputer sites:

] ATLANTA -- Jack Dongarra is the timekeeper in a race that
] has no finish line and no winner's circle -- just leaders
] whose tenuous hold on first place is determined by
] trillonths of a second.
]
] As custodian of the industry's "Top 500 List" for more
] than a decade, Dongarra, professor at the University of
] Tennessee and a researcher at Oak Ridge National
] Laboratory, has watched the speed of the world's fastest
] computers double every 18 months or so.

An interesting article about the current state. Google's 15,000 processors would probably rank in the top 500 if the system wasn't too busy to shut down to run the benchmark tests on it. The top 500 list is at http://www.top500.org/

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