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laptopRevolutionary tech innovation: Alan Turing's thinking machines

The first of Alan Turing's machines

Innovations aren't things that "get outdated"; rather, they become raw material for more innovation. As Alan Turing's code breaking machine which aided in war against the Nazi regime in WWII involved an innovative approach to problem solving. His clever method (documented in his 1936 paper ) of representing and manipulating all computable values by a machine--in binary--is the mathematical basis of each and every modern day digital computer.

Alan Turing's "The Bombe" (An odd name, indeed...)

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Replica of Alan Turing's "The Bombe" computing machines used to break German Naval codes encrypted with the Enigma machine. Credit: Tom Yates, photographer, shared on the Wikimedia commons.


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