- Computers viewed early on as number crunchers
- not immediately obvious that computers could be useful in manipulating words
- Turing test: can computer pass as human?
- challenged notions of human intelligence: if a computer can do it, is it an intelligent task?
- Concept of a thinking computer
- Introduced idea that computer-Human communication using language could be possible
- precursor to text based computing vs. simple numerical representations
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