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Alan Turing

In Our Time: Science

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Leslie Turring's Paper in 19 36

Simon samisheve: Leslie turing's paper in 19 36 was crowded with new ideas. This young man, turing, actually laying the whole foundations for computer science. In 19 36, a computer was a human being doing sums. And what turing shows brilliantly in the paper is that whatever a human computer can do, a machine can do. That opened up a vast landscape for thinking about what computers do in general.

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