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1. Re: Google on Alan Turing's birthday (Chuck Hards) 2. Re: Google on Alan Turing's birthday (Patrick Wiggins) 3. Re: Google on Alan Turing's birthday (Chuck Hards) 4. Re: Google on Alan Turing's birthday (Daniel Holmes)
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:30:05 -0600 From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Google on Alan Turing's birthday Message-ID: <CAHmuOYr+M82Gqm0nJDuiTPwpTguFmuJuO=GL+y2c1kp76wnfyw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I get the impression that nobody on the Google staff has ever used a slide rule. On Jun 23, 2012 3:22 PM, "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
The computer geeks on the list (at least the non-German ones <g> ) might enjoy what Google is doing today for Alan Turing's birthday:
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww
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Message: 2 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:38:44 -0600 From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Google on Alan Turing's birthday Message-ID: <5A976983-7735-49C3-B710-CE5D152680E7@wirelessbeehive.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hi Chuck,
I don't think the image on the page is supposed to be a slide rule. Turing's device used a paper tape and I think that's what they are trying to show.
patrick
On 23 Jun 2012, at 15:30, Chuck Hards wrote:
I get the impression that nobody on the Google staff has ever used a slide rule.
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Message: 3 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:06:51 -0600 From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Google on Alan Turing's birthday Message-ID: <CAHmuOYqKecAfoLAzatS0C1pzssvk8FtR5e2BWQgtY_N18rauXw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Lame graphic. Lol. On Jun 23, 2012 3:40 PM, "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Hi Chuck,
I don't think the image on the page is supposed to be a slide rule. Turing's device used a paper tape and I think that's what they are trying to show.
patrick
On 23 Jun 2012, at 15:30, Chuck Hards wrote:
I get the impression that nobody on the Google staff has ever used a slide rule.
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Message: 4 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:11:44 -0600 From: Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Google on Alan Turing's birthday Message-ID: <EFC797AD-612C-4CDC-982A-8D7378DB9E48@holmesonics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Yeah, its a simple Turing machine.
Turing was a fascinating man. He invented the bombe, the machine used to break the enigma code during world war 2, and is considered the father of artificial intelligence with his Turing tests. He was a brilliant mathematician and cryptographer.
Turing machines are a hypothetical computational machine that help to understand the limits of mechanical computational algorithms. Turing tests are tests given to humans that try to have the human distinguish the answers given by a machine as indistinguishable from an humans answers. Basically to see how far we can go with artificial intelligence.
I've always wondered what modern computer science would look like if he hadn't committed suicide in his early forties.
Dan
-- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors.
On Jun 23, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Hi Chuck,
I don't think the image on the page is supposed to be a slide rule. Turing's device used a paper tape and I think that's what they are trying to show..
patrick
On 23 Jun 2012, at 15:30, Chuck Hards wrote:
I get the impression that nobody on the Google staff has ever used a slide rule.
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