Friday, September 11, 2009

Tribute to Alan Turing

A friend of me published this link on Facebook concerning the treatment of Alan Turing http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571.

The way this significant contributor to the victory in Europe during the second war has been treated by because of laws persecuting homosexuals remains appealing. It seems the consequences of the hitlerian ideology were not that clear even for the democracies at that time...

Turing is one of the father of computer sciences. Its theory of calculability is based on an finite state machine automaton with infinite memory capability.

This last concept has been largely implemented by Microsoft OS but only in the ability to use it...

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