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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Google celebrates the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth

Today, Google celebrates the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. He was a British mathematician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst, known for The Halting Problem, The Turing Machine, The Turing Award (the equivalent of The Nobel Award for computer scientists), The Turing Patterns, The Automatic Computing Engine and The Cryptanalysis of The Enigma.


The Google Doodle represents a functional Turing Machine, with which you can play.

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