Turing
Pioneer of the Information Age
Jack Copeland
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Who was Alan Turing and why is he regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century? How did he become the father of the computer science? How did the development of the Automatic Computing Engine lead to the development of the first modern computer? We spoke with B. Jack Copeland, author of Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, about Turing's work.Â
Posted on April 21, 2013
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By Jack Copeland Three words to sum up Alan Turing? Humour. He had an impish, irreverent and infectious sense of humour. Courage. Isolation. He loved to work alone. Reading his scientific papers, it is almost as though the rest of the world -- the busy community of human minds working away on the same or related problems -- simply did not exist. Turing was determined to do it his way.
Posted on November 29, 2012
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By Jack Copeland Germanyâs Army, Air Force, and Navy transmitted many thousands of coded messages each day during the Second World War. These ranged from top-level signals, such as detailed situation reports prepared by generals at the battle fronts and orders signed by Hitler himself, down to the important minutiae of war, such as weather reports and inventories of the contents of supply ships. Thanks to Turing and his fellow codebreakers, much of this information ended up in allied hands â sometimes within an hour or two of its being transmitted.
Posted on July 7, 2012
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