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Remembering Alan Turing: The Digital 100 Year Old
Wonder what the Google image of the day is? Well I’m going to take a wild guess that you are using some form of a computing device (Cheesy joke I know, I know). Well anyways Alan Turing is this cool guy who kind of started Computer Science. No big deal. He played a key role in decoding encrypted messages in WWII, and even before a digital computer was even imagine he came up with the Turing Machine. The Turing Machine was never “built” but it was instead described in a paper he published. His paper described a theoretical operation that used an infinite long piece of tape containing a series of symbols. A machine head could read the symbols on the tape as well as place its own symbols. The machine could move about to different parts of the tape, moving one symbol at a time. Easy enough! Lets just get some infinite paper; Oops, Houston we have a problem! However, his idea was not crazy and in fact this idea is used today in all forms of computing. Does the title of the website ring a bell at all? Well what about 01010100011010000110100101110011! Yup, you guessed it binary; Alan Turing came up with the idea of Binary architecture to be used in a computing device! Symbols that are read on at a time, using various techniques we can “jump” around. Amazing how a simple idea can turn into such a big thing used in everyday lives! Makes you inspired, especially when working in the ever changing Tech industry. Makes you wonder if you’ll be the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, or in this case Alan Turing. Rest in Peace Alan Turing, thank you for all your contributions to modern computing. It was your idea that sparked the influence in modern technology.
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Add any standard arithmetic signs to make this equation true:
3 1 3 6 = 8
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