http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/06/23/happy-birthday-alan-big-gay-al-turing/ Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/06/23/happy-birthday-alan-big-gay-al-turing/comment-page-1/#comment-4963 The Bangus Ultimatum » Bookmarks for June 15th through June 24th Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:00:15 +0000 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/06/23/happy-birthday-alan-big-gay-al-turing/#comment-4963 [...] Happy Birthday, Alan “Big Gay Al” Turing! — Global Nerdy - Alan Turing is the man. He developed the concept of the Turing Machine, which helped helped solidify the concepts of the algorithm and computability, came up with the Turing Test, broke German WWII ciphers, worked on one of the earliest true computers and has earned a place as one of the Giants of Computer Science. He’s been honoured with a computer language named after him (although he’d be appalled at the language itself). [...] [...] Happy Birthday, Alan “Big Gay Al” Turing! — Global Nerdy – Alan Turing is the man. He developed the concept of the Turing Machine, which helped helped solidify the concepts of the algorithm and computability, came up with the Turing Test, broke German WWII ciphers, worked on one of the earliest true computers and has earned a place as one of the Giants of Computer Science. He’s been honoured with a computer language named after him (although he’d be appalled at the language itself). [...]

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