Hi Andy, I'm a big fan!
Alan Turing has been pardoned!
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Alan Turing created the theoretical model of all computers ( the Turing machine ) in an era when there were no practical computers.
A great visionary and a great genious.
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one of the most relevant persons of XX century
http://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmps210/Winter11/Papers/turing-1936.pdf
pdela wrote:
one of the most relevant person of XX century
http://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmps210/Winter11/Papers/turing-1936.pdf
If this was the only sentence that Turing had ever written down we should still consider him a genious.
Dec 23, 2013
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watcha wrote:
pdela wrote:
one of the most relevant person of XX century
http://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmps210/Winter11/Papers/turing-1936.pdf
If this was the only sentence that Turing had ever written down we should still consider him a genious.
well, then there is that Hungarian guy
Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer chess engine has recieved a royal pardon! Better late than never.
Here is Turing's chess engine against a human opponent. No computer was powerful enough to run it at the time so Turing did all the calculations by hand!