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Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the your-machines-confound-me dept.

Blacklaw writes "Today marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a noted polymath and cryptanalyst who is regarded by many as being the grandfather of modern computing."

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  1. Re:Polymath? by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cockney rhyming slang for a bath. The man was a large iron/enamel basin. And basins give a ringing sound when you strike them. Two strikes, turings. Whence the Turing machine.