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<< Name: Prof Barry O’Sullivan Institute: University College Cork Title: TURING AT 100
“This image presents a portrait of Alan Turing, the great mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. The year 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Turing’s birth. He was one of the founding fathers of computer science, algorithms and computation. Turing is also well known for the Turing test and the concept of artificial intelligence. This image is what’s known as a domino portrait. It is generated by carefully placing each of the 55 dominoes from 361 sets of dominoes, almost 20000 pieces, in a manner that creates a high quality likeness of Turing. Generating such an image is an extremely challenging task bringing together several subfields of artificial intelligence to explore a vast space of configurations of dominoes, not unlike the search that Turing had undertaken during World War II to codebreak Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine. Zoom into the image to see each domino. Zoom out to see Turing.”
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BOBBY REDMOND: My photographs were taken based on the concept that the growth capacity of Ireland makes it great for business. Ireland has great potential for growth in many senses, from our young, educated and eager workforce to our favourable tax regime, which is one of the lowest statutory corporate tax rates in the world. These factors, as well as many more, are the oxygen, water, light and warmth a business needs to thrive. I took our fertile soil as a metaphor to represent all the aspects of Ireland that make it the ideal place to base a business in order for it to thrive. I created graphs and charts from organic matter at home in Wexford and photographed them in a still life format.
Issue 7 Autumn/Winter 2013 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW 43
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