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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:And Google forgot this... by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    However.

  2. Re:And shamefully treated too. by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Andy Wiles was over 30 when he proved Fermat's Last Theorem...

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