Happy Birthday, Turing's Universal Machine

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 20, 2008 7:50 PM EDT
The Register; By Phil Manchester
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It's just 71 years ago this month that a seminal paper from Alan Turing was published, which helped pave the way to today's multi-billion dollar IT industry and confer on Turing the title of father of modern computer science. As is often the case in scientific endeavour, Turing was actually working on an entirely different task when he stumbled on a way to create a general-purpose computer.

[Not directly FOSS related but I couldn't pass up on posting this. - Scott]

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