A Turing Tale.

The author discusses aspects of mathematician Alan Turing's computer program language. He mentions the introduction of his automatic machines without finite output and input as well as his desire in making them calculate and print real numbers. He notes his comparison of arguments from scholars, Jac...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 36 - 39
Main Author:	Daylight, Edgar G.
Format:	Opinion
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Oct2014
Subjects:	Turing (Computer program language) Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954 Copeland, Jack Hodges, Andrew Davis, Martin Scholars Automatic machinery Attitude (Psychology)
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