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OMG Alan Turing is a real person!
jeph:
Heyyyyyyyyyy........are you Neal Stephenson???
Schmung:
I keep hoping that sarcasm is involved when topics like this crop up..
Turing was wesome though, reflects greatly on the tlaent and ingenuity of that age, but very badly upon our attitudfes towards homosexuality etc.
blueblack:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias ---
Any respectable computer geek has at least heard of the Turing Test for AI.
--- End quote ---
...and probably failed it.
(I kid.)
torg:
--- Quote from: blindsuperhero ---Well, he designed the 'bombes', mechanical computers used to help break the Enigma codes
--- End quote ---
And Gottfried Leibnitz constructed a mechanical calculator. I don't think, that that device had any influence on the design of modern electronic calculators. ;)
blindsuperhero:
Okay, whatever
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