Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 13:04:08 04/25/00
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On April 21, 2000 at 15:38:16, Pete Galati wrote: >On April 21, 2000 at 15:04:38, Flemming Rodler wrote: > >>On April 21, 2000 at 13:59:27, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On April 21, 2000 at 13:40:36, Sean Empey wrote: >>> >>>>On April 21, 2000 at 00:32:00, Pete Galati wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 20, 2000 at 20:53:28, Pete Galati wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On April 20, 2000 at 19:51:02, Pete Galati wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>I've seen Alen Turning's Chess program that only existed on paper mentioned a >>>>>>>few times, but I don't think I've seen any mention of how it actually worked. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Has his program ever been published? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Thanks. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Pete >>>>>> >>>>>>Sorry, his name is spelled Alan Turing, I spelled both his names wrong! >>>>>> >>>>>>Pete >>>>> >>>>>Best I can do is dig up it's name at the moment, "Turochamp". He should have >>>>>been in marketing, good name, but it sounds more like a bicycle. >>>>> >>>>>Pete >>>> >>>>He was very much into riding bicycle's. Another Book you might want to look at, >>>>though long is Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It's a novel that switches >>>>between WWII and present. Dr. Alan Turing is a main focus in a lot of it. It >>>>goes over a lot of his work and explains it in some detail. >>> >>>There seems to be an awfull lot written about Turing, I've only been looking >>>into this this week. He seems to be very pivitol to the outcome of the digital >>>age, and yet he's somehow a mostly unknown footnote. >> >>If you studie Computer Science he certainly not a footnote. He made a very >>powerful mathematical model of computation called the Turing Machine. This model >>is so powerful because computers can be viewed as Turing Machines and because it >>makes it possible to prove a lot of interesting theorems about the computational >>power of computers. > >The Turing machine is the one mention that I find of him in this Barron's >"Dictionary of Computer Terms". > >> >>Also one of the most (if not the most) prestigous awards that you can get in CS >>is the Turing Award (something similar to the Nobel Prize). >> > >The Turing awards sounds familier, I think that computer show that gets >broadcast on PBS does a show from those awards every year, I could be mistaken. >I wouldn't have grasped the significance of the award's name until starting to >look into Turing some. > >Pete > >>> >>>He was rather important to computers, and my guess at this point is that this >>>CCC forum would not have existed (as it is) without his work creating the first >>>Chess program. It's embaressing how little I know about this. >>> >>>Pete http://www.turing.org.uk/ [a great mathematician!] JAFM
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