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Alan Turing turns 100

Pamela McCorduck
Today is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the father of modern computing. I hope you can take a moment to look at a tribute to him I wrote for The Atlantic Wire:



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Re: Alan Turing turns 100

Edward Angel
Also, the google.com home page for today features a Turing machine.

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On Jun 23, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:

Today is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the father of modern computing. I hope you can take a moment to look at a tribute to him I wrote for The Atlantic Wire:



Pamela



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Henry James

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Re: Alan Turing turns 100

Steve Smith
Turns out I'm better at programming a (trivial program) turing machine than I expected....
Go Alan!
Also, the google.com home page for today features a Turing machine.

Ed
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Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

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On Jun 23, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:

Today is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the father of modern computing. I hope you can take a moment to look at a tribute to him I wrote for The Atlantic Wire:



Pamela



"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Henry James

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Re: Alan Turing turns 100

Owen Densmore
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Nice article, really brings home the times in which he lived and the absurdity of both war and sodomy laws.

Maybe a wedtech sonetime?

   -- Owen

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Pamela McCorduck <[hidden email]> wrote:
Today is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the father of modern computing. I hope you can take a moment to look at a tribute to him I wrote for The Atlantic Wire:



Pamela



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Henry James


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Re: Alan Turing turns 100

Pamela McCorduck
Owen, I'd do it except my knowledge of his actual scientific  contributions--they were broad and deep--is so superficial, I'd die of embarrassment!

P.


On Jun 23, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

Nice article, really brings home the times in which he lived and the absurdity of both war and sodomy laws.

Maybe a wedtech sonetime?

   -- Owen

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Pamela McCorduck <[hidden email]> wrote:
Today is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the father of modern computing. I hope you can take a moment to look at a tribute to him I wrote for The Atlantic Wire:



Pamela



"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Henry James


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