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Dan

Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:42 pm


Happy Birthday Alan

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It's Alan Turing's birthday today (born 23 June, 1912).

For those that don't know Turing is considered to be the father of modern computer science and you can find out more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing


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apomb

Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:12 pm


RE:Happy Birthday Alan

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Just to clear up any misconceptions, if any, Alan Turing is NOT the inventor of Turing, the now outdated proprietary programming language we all begrudgingly learned in highschool, thereby tarnishing the good Turing name. :)

Happy B-day to the Turing that should be remembered for the name Turing. 

Long live Alan Turing... in our code.


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jbking

Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:18 pm


Re: RE:Happy Birthday Alan

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Just to clear up any misconceptions, if any, Alan Turing is NOT the inventor of Turing, the now outdated proprietary programming language we all begrudgingly learned in highschool, thereby tarnishing the good Turing name. :)


Some of us didn't get Turing... I had Watcom BASIC for most of my high school CS days, with a little bit of Pascal at the end.


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apomb

Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:25 pm


RE:Happy Birthday Alan

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you should feel blessed. ;)


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A.J

Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:42 pm


RE:Happy Birthday Alan

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Happy Birthday Mr.Turing!


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ecookman

Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:14 pm


RE:Happy Birthday Alan

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loop
put "happy birthday"
end loop


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x-ecutioner

Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:13 pm


RE:Happy Birthday Alan

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his notes and lectures are online if anyones interested, a simple google search should do it.  his notes on artificial intelligence are particularly interesting.


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Kharybdis

Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:17 pm


RE:Happy Birthday Alan

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omg there was an Alan Turing


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ecookman

Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:18 pm


RE:Happy Birthday Alan

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omg you never knew?