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." ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
Also, the google.com home page for today features a Turing machine.
Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon On Jun 23, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
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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. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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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:
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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. "Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language." ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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