brian hefele's untidy space: computing http://brhefele.brainaxle.com/index.cgi art & musings of brian hefele Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:04:29 +0200 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:04:29 +0200 http://23.fi/kukkaisvoima/ en Happy Belated Birthday, Alan Turing http://brhefele.brainaxle.com/index.cgi/turing%3B2010-06-24 http://brhefele.brainaxle.com/index.cgi/turing%3B2010-06-24#disqus_thread Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:04:29 +0200 brian hefele computing code software http://brhefele.brainaxle.com/index.cgi/turing%3B2010-06-24/ (The late) Alan Turing's birthday was yesterday, and I meant to write this post yesterday, but I didn't, so here it is now. Anyone with an interest in computing (note: not computers) already knows everything there is to know about Turing, but for everyone else, here's a little background. Turing was a mathematician (among other things). At the time (let's say late 1920s through 1954), there weren't computer scientists, because there weren't computers, not as we know them. There was a lot of math, though, and one way to help formulate a proof, help work through an algorithm or a complex mathematical function is by having some sort of device to help you.

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