Saturday, June 23, 2012

Alan Turing

  • Ivana said she was from Russia, which would help explain her idiosyncratic English. But there was something else that was odd about her prose.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • A Nazi bomber flies over London in the autumn of 1940. (AP) Alan Turing saved my life.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • Google on Saturday challenged searchers to a puzzle in homage to what would have been Alan Turings 100th birthday. Turing, a brilliant British mathematician and codebreaker, worked for the British government during World War II.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Alan Mathison Turing, widely acknowledged as one of the triad, along with John von Neumann and Charles Babbage, who imagined and brought forth the brave new age of computers, was born a hundred years ago on 23 June.
  • (Livemint.com)
  • Normally, when Google creates doodles, it uses its brains to create art that everyone can grasp and feel. For tomorrow in the U.S. (and today in places like New Zealand), however, the company has decided to offer no such creative mercies.
  • (CNET News)
  • A celebration of the life and work of the pioneering computer scientist See full coverage The test comes from British mathematician and World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, born on this day 100 years ago.
  • (Mashable)
  • Today the Computer world is celebrating 100 years since the birth of the father of Computers.
  • (3d-car-shows.com)
  • Alan Turing would have turned 100 this week, an event that would have, no doubt, been greeted with all manner of pomp -- the centennial of a man whose mid-century concepts would set the stage for modern computing.
  • (engadget)
  • The Google Doodle was turned into an interactive animated representation of the computing device Turing invented to mark the 100th anniversary of the scientists birth.
  • (Daily Telegraph)

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