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Alan Turing

tags:: #lec13 #computing projects:: related: turing machine Claud Shanon Charles Babbage

  • tries to solve the halting problem (Entscheidunsproblem) by theorizing about a turing machine
    • called it a 'Universal Machine' as a homage to Charles Babbage whose work was seen as a curiosity and not a revulation
  • his ideas packaged with Claud Shanon's work has the basics needed to create a digital computer

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