The Father of Computing...

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nice pics.

btw i see another of my theory is right. husband and wife look similar after a few years of marriage. must be love.
 
thats my sis actually, do we really look similar? i've been told i look like my mom and sis looks like my dad. and yea she was perplexed as to why i was fixated on that statue when there are dozens if not hundreds around the place...

but that old/bald guy is not me in the pic, i really am tall, dark, handsome, athletic - people have mistaken me for tom cruise before... :ohyeah:

edit: if i get time, i will try to visit GCHQ/Bletchley Park to get a look at an Enigma and whatever else I can ... http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/museum.rhtm
 
Just some tidbits that not many people many know about the father of computing.

1. He was a cryptanalyst during the world war II era. He is one of those great mathematicians cum cryptanalyst's I was referring to in the Ankit Fadia thread. He was the guy responsible for the first electro-mechanical computers for breaking the german enigma codes faster than every other means they had before.

2. He was conceived when his parents were in India. :P

3. He was a Homosexual (He was convicted for the same) and alleged child molester. He supposedly committed suicide for the humiliation the British govt made him go through.
 
^^ Well I thought anyone who is into Computing/AI knows about Turing because of the Turing Machine or the Turing Test. So I didn't deem it necessary to mention the obvious. I mentioned the tidbits about him that not everyone may be aware of.
 
6pack said:
btw i see another of my theory is right. husband and wife look similar after a few years of marriage. must be love.
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I might agree to that. Even I feel the same many a times :ohyeah:
 
Lord Nemesis said:
Just some tidbits that not many people know about the father of computing.
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No need to rely on just tidbits when there are vast archives of information available freely online :D

Yes, like blr_p said I believe it was his paper "On Computable Numbers" where he first described "a machine" but could not build it because the technology did not exist at the time! I'd recently watched the 1996 short TV film on the guy "Breaking the Code"...

Starting point: Alan Turing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But yes, there ARE little interesting tidbits here n there like
An urban legend holds that the logo of Apple computers is a tribute to Alan Turing, with the bite mark a reference to his method of suicide, something that the company denies.
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And I had an amazingly inspirational Sunday morning trip to..... Bletchley Park!

See Picasa Web Albums - Vishal - Bletchley Park for pics.

And start your own voyage here: Bletchley Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A fictionalised version of this place is in the book "Cryptonomicon" which I've recently bought but have yet to read :)
 
nobody cares about the history of computing? :( i will try to go back to bletchley park (see pics in post above) get more pics inside the computing museum and also another area with some ian fleming (james bond author) stuff... any special requests? i can take pics/videos you need...
 
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