Micro Live
Series 3: 28/03/1987

In the last, extended edition of the series, Micro Live visits the Haymarket Theatre where the world of Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, is portrayed by Derek Jacobi in the stageplay Breaking the Code. Turing's computers in the 1940s and 1950s were 'first-generation' machines; now computer scientists are working on the 'fifth generation'. In Scotland the institute named after Turing has a world reputation in artificial intelligence work, but its software products are hardly used in the UK.

In California, where seemingly limitless sums are thrown at research projects, 'Chinese temples', 'brainstorming' and robots for war veterans are the subjects of fifth generation work. Dr Ian Page of Oxford 

Credits
Role 	Contributor
Presenter	Lesley Judd
Presenter	Ian McNaught-Davis
Presenter	Fred Harris
Participant	Derek Jacobi
Participant	Dr Ian Page
Director	Terry Marsh
Producer	Peter Bratt
Series Editor	David Allen
Broadcast

    Sat 28 Mar 1987 18:15
    BBC Two