Christof Teuscher is an author and editor who works at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...
,
United States
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.
Teuscher obtained MSc and PhD degrees from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology The Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology are two institutes of higher education in Switzerland (part of the ETH Domain):
* Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Swiss may refer to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
*Swiss people ...
in
Lausanne
, neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...
,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. For his PhD, he explored
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical com ...
's ideas on
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
and
neural networks
A neural network is a network or circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up of biological ...
.
He was the initiator and organizer of the
Turing Day, an international workshop to commemorate the anniversary of Alan Turing's 90th birthday.
Dr Teuscher's work has been distinguished with several awards.
Bibliography
*''Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker'' (ed.),
Springer, (2005),
* ''Turing's Connectionism. An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures'',
, London, (2002),
* ''From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers'' (ed. with Andrew Adamatzky), 2006
* ''Unconventional Computing 2007'' (ed. with Andrew Adamatzky, Lawrence Bull, Ben De Lacy Costello, Susan Stepney), 2007
References
External links
Christof Teuscher website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
American computer scientists
American biographers
Computer systems researchers
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