Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday 146
Blacklaw writes "Today marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a noted polymath and cryptanalyst who is regarded by many as being the grandfather of modern computing."
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Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday
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Re:Polymath? (Score:5, Funny)
Cockney rhyming slang for a bath. The man was a large iron/enamel basin. And basins give a ringing sound when you strike them. Two strikes, turings. Whence the Turing machine.
Re:And shamefully treated too. (Score:2, Funny)
As a mathematician over 30? Probably he could have done some teaching, hung out at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for a while, get tenure somewhere, smoke a pipe and so forth.