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The first recording of computer music was playing at the wrong pitch for decades

In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...
Telefónica

Who was Alan Turing?

What role did Alan Turing play in World War II? Are the Turing Machine and the Turing Test the same thing? Machine learning and AI would not have become what they are today without the theoretical and ...
Chicago Tribune

A decade in the making, world premiere of ‘The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing’ arrives at COT at the right time

For as much as we know about the pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing, we know relatively little about his death. Turing was found dead at his home in 1954, two years after he was outed ...
ITWeb on MSN

The computing factory that defeated the cipher

The computing factory that defeated the cipherIn Alan Turing's world, at Bletchley Park, there wasn't time to crack a PIN with brute force, as ciphers changed too often and lives were at risk. By Dr ...