What is Digg?Sponsored by Travelzoo
Take Advantage of Ridiculously Low Holiday Airfares view!
travelzoo.com - Flights $52 and up for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year. But move on it now.
18 Comments
- cstudent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Additional comment to those who are going on about the "first" computer...
Turing was important to the theory of algorithms and the mathematics on which programming (algorithms) is based ... not computers.
Atanasoff's computer was just an electronic version Babbage's machine. An advance in electronic design ... not programming. - tolbs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0none of you guys learned about turing machines in college? Shame.
- shazeubaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually, a guy out of Iowa invented the first digital electronic computer in 1935. A year before Mr. Turing's "nightmare." I posted it to digg last week:
http://www.digg.com/hardware/The_first_electronic_digital_computer:_The_ABC_Computer_ - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Alan Turing "not as well known as he should be"? He's about as well known to computer scientists as Jesus is to Christians.
- zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Is this a computer typing this sentence or a person? You decide. (My very own turing test).
- cstudent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0... And I suppose none of them have heard of the Turing Thesis either ... now that's a real shame!
- cdbeckman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As shazeubaa said, this wasn't the first computer. Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff invented the digital computer in 1935 at Iowa State University.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff_Berry_Computer
No Digg. - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ironic how he was driven insane by his own government's bigotry, considering the work he did in breaking the Enigma machine (although the work was started off by a Polish scientist).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A good read. get it
- frankgoertzen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder why earlier programming languages didn't use the "Turing" name... instead it was left to a rather bulky and slow interrupting programming language now taught widely in Canada to introduce students to programming models.
- ironbear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Turing was very cool, but portions of his life and tragic death were not. Through ignorance, this sort of thing can happen and is happening again.
- dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0NO DIGG.
i just took CS301 at Colorado State University - "Foundations of Computer Science" - all about Turing machines...finite state automata, regular expressions...
DAMN THAT ALAN TURING!! - Ninjamonk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I have Turing's biography and its not a bad read. He had a tragic end really, shame hes not as well known as he should be. Digg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OMG I never knew Turing was homosexual, interesting.
- raven001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Good book review. Sounds like a worthwhile read.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wasn't he murdered by his own government? The biography was way too thick for me to get to the end.
- baltakatei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I digg it since Turing was an interesting fellow.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0no digg, it has nothing to do with the X360.
PS3 = DEAD
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is