雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第9章:退隱山林(101)

A talk given at this period incorporated some proposals which started off like an office filing system, or indeed the 'intelligence' of Hut 4:

在這個時期的一次講話中，他基於辦公室的文件管理工作，提出了一些想法，實際上這些工作就是當年4號營房的"智能"：

The machine would incorporate a memory... It would simply be a list of all the statements that had been made to it or by it, and all the moves it had made and the cards it had played in its games.

機器是有記憶的……它可以記下它經歷過的所有狀態，比如它下棋時走過的每一步，或者打牌時打出的每張牌。

These would be listed in chronological order.

這些可以按照時間順序排列。

Besides this straightforward memory there would be a number of 'indexes of experiences'.

除了這種簡單的記憶之外，機器還應該有一個"經驗索引表"，

To explain this idea I will suggest the form which one such index might possibly take.

我來解釋一下這種索引表的形式，

It might be an alphabetical index of the words that had been used, so that they could be looked up in the memory.

它可以按照字母順列排列，這樣就可以對記憶進行搜索。

At comparatively late stages of education the memory might be extended to include important parts of the configuration of the machine at each moment, or in other words it would begin to remember what its thoughts had been.

在訓練過程的後期，機器的記憶覆蓋了它經歷過的每一時刻的狀態，換句話來說，它記住了它曾經的所有想法。

This would give rise to fruitful new forms of indexing.

這將是一個非常有用的新型索引表...

In many ways what he was doing was to work out his own theory of psychology, with the machine (mostly in imagination) as the stage on which it could be played.

從某種意義來說，圖靈是在研究一種機器心理學，但這種機器主要存在於他的想象中。

The Inaugural Conference of the Manchester computer, from 9 to 12 July 1951, to which Alan returned after a holiday abroad, was a more mundane occasion.

1951年7月9日到12日，曼徹斯特大學舉行了計算機發布儀式。這時圖靈剛從國外度假回來，

Alan gave one of the talks. a dull one on the Manchester machine code, with all the gory detail of the base-32 backwards arithmetic.

他做了一場枯燥無趣的報告，關於曼徹斯特機的機器編碼，以及32進制算術的一些細節問題。

But Wilkes was the star, with 'micro-programming', an elegant new system for the design of control and arithmetic hardware.

這場活動的焦點並不是他，而是威爾克斯，他的講話關於"微程序"，這是一種新型的控制和運算硬件系統。