Turing was brought up a few minutes away from where I live, here in St. Leonards. I wrote this piece about his early life for my local amateur radio club newsletter:
Turing is the closest there ever is to a god among men.
Von Neumann is the other human pillar in the foundation of what became the computer, but Turing saw more from further away and overcame more to realize it than von Neumann did for his part. Also, von Neumann enthusiastically participated in the thoroughly unnecessary H-bomb program, while Turing was being frozen out and driven toward suicide by jerks who should have been licking his boots and thanking him for creating their world.
Turing's biography The Enigma by Andrew Hodges is one of a handful of books I re-read every few years. Einstein, a fellow with a weird obsession about the speed of light that happened to be right in one sense which earned him fame and wrong in another that caused him to idle away his later years uselessly, was much less brilliant.
Turing was brought up a few minutes away from where I live, here in St. Leonards. I wrote this piece about his early life for my local amateur radio club newsletter:
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Von Neumann is the other human pillar in the foundation of what became the computer, but Turing saw more from further away and overcame more to realize it than von Neumann did for his part. Also, von Neumann enthusiastically participated in the thoroughly unnecessary H-bomb program, while Turing was being frozen out and driven toward suicide by jerks who should have been licking his boots and thanking him for creating their world.
Turing's biography The Enigma by Andrew Hodges is one of a handful of books I re-read every few years. Einstein, a fellow with a weird obsession about the speed of light that happened to be right in one sense which earned him fame and wrong in another that caused him to idle away his later years uselessly, was much less brilliant.
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Jim
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Jim