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Campaign Saves Unique Turing Archive
99luftballon writes "A near-complete collection of Alan Turing's offprints have been bought for Bletchley Park following an online campaign and funds from Google and the UK government. They will go on display in the next few months. From the article: 'The collection contains offprints of 15 of Turing's 18 published papers assembled by his friend and colleague Max Newman. It includes Turing's first published paper, as well as his initial plans for computing and artificial intelligence.'"
This collection is only recursively enumerable?
I guess this collection is Turing near-complete.
char*f="char*f=%c%s%c;main(){printf(f,34,f,34);}";main(){printf(f,34,f,34);}
Every once in a while I notice that Google hasn't taken their eye off the ball. They have achieved status as some of the most respected players in the industry. Why? Because they actually care a bit about its history. Most everyone else is solely interested in the last quarter, and whether the shareholders will be pleased. M$ couldn't give the slightest sniff about Turing, same with IBM, HP, Oracle, and most of the rest. I like making money, but not necessarily to the exclusion of all else. I can't say the same about those I've mentioned. The hard-core business types will offer "well, there is nothing without money", and that is what separates the pioneers in any industry, the innovators in any industry, and the captains in any industry, from the outsourced, half-baked, half-cooked, humdrum, rest.
You give enough of a fuck to huff and puff. You must be steaming mad that Slashdot isn't catering to your tastes.
Sorry, off-topic - but your username looks like the name of a Harry Potter spell. :-)
I'm not quite sure what it should do, though... any ideas?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Endoplasmic_reticulum
I understand that people like to be able to touch history - but I find it a bit ironic that people are willing to pay so much for the physical paper and ink these were written on. The value of the papers is in the ideas, and those can be downloaded for free - thanks to many of the ideas in those papers.
This is crazy - so much money for papers that are available on the web for free and are simply offprints of journal articles - none of which have gone missing from the usual sources. You can even buy original copies from the web for tens of pounds. It seems this is a knee jerk reaction and a missunderstanding of the term "papers" - these are not litterary papers or personal papers but scientific papers with a few scribble that are in the main not even Turings! see: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/2043-purchase-of-turing-papers-secured-for-bletchley-park-.html
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Endoplasmic_reticulum
Ridiculous : The spell for a Boggart (Celtic creature or HP shape shifter). The endoplasmic reticulum occurs in three shapes and varies with the amount of synthesis.
I think you wanted to post that in another story.
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
Of course if you see it with a mohawk haircut, vicious boots, and a chainsaw, it's endoplasmatic reticulum.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Actually his first published paper was to his colleague Max.
It reads: "Hellllooooooo Newman"
Any notes in the margins to Rudy von Hacklheber?