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The Bank of England will honor Alan Turing on its new £50 note
The Bank of England has chosen Alan Turing, computing pioneer and a code-cracker during World War Two, to be featured on its new £50 note. Turing contributed significantly to the field of mathematics, but his achievements were not fully recogni...
Turing Award winners include AI giants from Facebook and Google
The Turing Award has recognized some of the biggest names in AI and computing over the years, and the latest winners are particularly heavy hitters. The three prize recipients for 2018 are Google VP George Hinton, Facebook's Yann LeCun (above) and Y...
Benedict Cumberbatch is Doctor Strange
The search for the actor that plays Marvel's Doctor Strange has been going on for a while. Today Variety reports that the search might have ended. The report says that Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock...
Benedict Cumberbatch is Alan Turing in The Imitation Game
Let me get this out of the way. I am a huge fan of Benedict Cumberbatch. He is awesome in Sherlock and he does and awesome Chewebacca impression (watch below).Benedict Cumberbatch will star as one of...
Turing Test Passed for the First Time, But…
In a breakthrough of engineering a computer has successfully passed the infamous ‘Turing test‘. You may have already read the headlines about how this is the beginning of the movie Terminator and the...
There’s More Than Just Qubits In Computing With Quantum Cats
Bestselling science writer John Gribbin’s new book Computing with Quantum Cats (Prometheus Books) holds more than a few surprises for readers interested in the history of computers–from the massive...
The Web’s Test ‘Are You Human?’ Beaten By an IA System
CAPTCHA or Completely Automated Public Turing test designed to tell Computer and Human users apart has been cracked by a new software created by Vicarious, a California. start-up company.Until now,...
Google’s Turing doodle celebrates his genius, reminds us how dumb we are (video)
This week sees many corners of the globe celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing. A man whose contribution to the worlds of tech and gadgets is immeasurable -- a sentiment not lost on Google. Today, geeks and norms worldwide will be waking up to possibly the most complex doodle to date. Can you set the machine and spell out "Google"? If you can, you'll be sent off to lots more information about the man himself. This isn't the only thing Mountain View's done to keep his legacy alive, having previously helped Bletchley Park raise funds to purchase (and display) Turing's papers, and more recently helping curators at London's Science Museum with its Codebreaker - Alan Turing's Life and Legacy exhibition. If you haven't already, head to Google.com and pop your logic hat on, and if you get stuck, head past the break for a helpful video.
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The Official Google Blog, Google | Email this | Comments Alan Turing’s breakthrough machine gets a loving Lego tribute (video)
In the world of technology, having one of your inventions rendered in Lego form is the equivalent of a musician being parodied by Weird Al -- it's a sign you've truly made it and tribute to your influence. So, we're more than a little surprised to see that it's taken this long for the Turing Machine to be lovingly built from plastic bricks. The heart of this simple logic device is a Lego Mindstorms NXT set, but the soul is in Alan Turing's genius -- a man who was before his time and unjustly persecuted for failing to properly fit into society's molds. Dutch researchers Jeroen van den Bosand and Davy Landman built the device as a tribute to Turing, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this Saturday. If you're in Amsterdam you can see the machine yourself at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica's Turings Erfenis exhibit. Or, you can watch the short explanatory video after the break.
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Alan Turing's breakthrough machine gets a loving Lego tribute (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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