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Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist

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Re: Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist

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Post by haberman »

I'm participating in an event tonight in Seattle that commemorates Turing's life and work: http://synthesist.net/music/turing/

It's very avant-garde -- sort of a mix between a concert and an exhibit. I'm not 100% sure what to expect from it, since I've only been working with a few of the musical elements. It looks interesting though.

Re: Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist

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Post by saljam »

There's a conference in his honour this weekend in Manchester, where he did much of his work. On the list of speakers are Hoare, Knuth, Penrose, Cerf, Kasparov, Fred Brooks, Rodny Brooks, Shamir, and many others. It's quite exciting to get so many luminaries in the same event.

http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/

Edit: It's also quite expensive!

Re: Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist

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Post by excuse-me »

SquareWheel wrote: post #5

Check out Google's doodle commemorating Turing's birthday. http://www.google.co.nz/

Why .nz?

.co.uk I could understand, .com ,being the main site, would be an honour, even .de would be subtly ironic - but I can't see the connection with kiwis

Does each Google fiefdom get to do it's own toys without the express command of the chocolate factory?

Re: Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

excuse-me wrote: post #7
SquareWheel wrote: post #5

Check out Google's doodle commemorating Turing's birthday. http://www.google.co.nz/

Why .nz? .co.uk I could understand, .com ,being the main site, would be an honour, even .de would be subtly ironic - but I can't see the connection with kiwis Does each Google fiefdom get to do it's own toys without the express command of the chocolate factory?

New Zealand is ahead of the US and UK. Google's Doodles are timed by local time and locality. So NZ gets them before the US does.

EDIT: Actually, it's quite interesting to look at Google's page about doodles. Most of the doodles will never be seen by you, since they are country-specific.

Re: Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist

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Post by kingofspain »

saljam wrote: post #4

There's a conference in his honour this weekend in Manchester, where he did much of his work. On the list of speakers are Hoare, Knuth, Penrose, Cerf, Kasparov, Fred Brooks, Rodny Brooks, Shamir, and many others. It's quite exciting to get so many luminaries in the same event. http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/ Edit: It's also quite expensive!

relief

A friend asked me this morning if I fancied the Turing event this evening in Manchester. I'm currently skint and a bit under the weather so I had to pass. Seeing the list of speakers I momentarily felt a lot more unwell until I realised that this wouldn't be the same event!

Re: Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist

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Post by excuse-me »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #8
excuse-me wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why .nz? .co.uk I could understand, .com ,being the main site, would be an honour, even .de would be subtly ironic - but I can't see the connection with kiwis Does each Google fiefdom get to do it's own toys without the express command of the chocolate factory?

New Zealand is ahead of the US and UK. Google's Doodles are timed by local time and locality. So NZ gets them before the US does. EDIT: Actually, it's quite interesting to look at Google's page about doodles. Most of the doodles will never be seen by you, since they are country-specific.

I see, although it does leave the question - if New Zealand is in the future why do they have Hobbits?
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