Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science"

alphadogg writes "Google's Vint Cerf and others are spearheading celebrations in Silicon Valley and the UK this month to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. 'The man challenged everyone's thinking,' says Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, in an interview with Network World. 'He was so early in the history of computing, and yet so incredibly visionary about it.' Cerf — who is president-elect of the Association for Computing Machinery and general chair of that organization's effort to celebrate the upcoming 100th anniversary of Turing's birth on June 23 — says that it's tough to overstate the importance of Turing's role in shaping the world of modern computing. Turing's accomplishments included his breakthrough Turing machine, cracking German military codes during WWII and designing a digital multiplier called the Automated Computing Machine."

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And he killed a dragon once with a vacuum tube

[crazyjj]

Okay, well that last one sounds a little more implausible than the rest--granted.

Just sayin

[bigredradio]

Has anyone noticed this before.... just sayin.

Re:correction

[Samantha Wright]

Nah, during the fifties it was illegal to be cheerful, too.

rust never sleeps

[PopeRatzo]

Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist

Interesting that a title like "Google's chief Internet evangelist" sounded so cool in 2000 now sounds so completely dorky.

The future is so 1999.