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Alan Turing, Screw Cerf and Joss Whedon

What do Alan Turing, Vint Cerf, Joss Whedon, Anna Akhmatova, as well as the Olympic Games, typewriter and gymnastic hoop have in common?

June 23, 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Joss Whedon, 71 years old Vinton Surf and 102 years since the birth of Alan Turing.

It is quite possible that June 23 will someday be a day of cryptanalysis or a day of artificial intelligence.

Alan Turing
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In the absence of laws of behavior, which in their totality would determine our life, one cannot be convinced as easily as in the absence of a complete list of rules of action. The only way we know how to find such laws is a scientific explanation, and of course we can never ... say: “We have researched enough already. There are no laws that fully define our life and behavior. ”

Digital archive

This website contains nearly 3,000 images of letters, photographs, newspaper articles, and articles about or about Alan Turing.

Can a car think? (Translation of the Turing article)
Sleep well, Alan! Turing test and empty sensations (2014, an interesting article in Computerra)
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Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine (MIT Lecture)


LEGO Turing Machine


Enigma hacking machines - Bombies (named after dessert)
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After the war, Churchill, for reasons of secrecy, ordered the destruction of all the material traces of the Ultra program, including the Bombe machines.
The British history buffs, after more than 60 years, restored one Turing Bombe machine, despite having detailed drawings and explanations (the complete set was assembled for 2 years), they spent 10 years on this.
The name of the device Bombe is sometimes mistakenly translated into Russian as "bomb." Meanwhile, the bomb in English - bomb. According to one of the versions, the name Bombe is derived from the name of the dessert from the Bombe glacée ice cream, in the form of a ball or cylinder.

In November 2014, the film "The Imitation Game"
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www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970

In 1952, Turing published a paper entitled “The chemical basis of morphogenesis” (The chemical basis of morphogenesis), which for the first time describes mathematically the process of self-organization of matter.

Vinton Surf , architect Matrix developer TCP / IP
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Awarded 2004 Turing Award


Joss Whedon. Biography
(Firefly): You can't take the sky from me (article on Habré)

Anna Akhmatova
image Everything in Moscow is saturated with poems,
Rhymes punctured through.
May silence prevail over us
May we rhyme and settle apart,
Let silence be a secret sign
Those who are with you, but seemed like me,
You will unite in secret marriage
With virgin bitter silence,
That in the darkness granite wears granite
And the magic closes the circle,
And in the night over the ear, death prophesies,
Drowning out the loudest sound.
1963, Moscow

International Olympic Day
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The important thing in life is not triumph, but the struggle; conquered but to have fought well. It is up to you to be able to make it up.

170 pages out of 30 volumes and 1200 articles by Pierre de Coubertin have been translated into Russian.

oh, yes, even on this day, a typewriter and a gymnastic hoop were patented.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/227035/


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