A beautiful idea about Alan Turing

John Graham-Cumming wrote an excellent article about how Alan Turing, father of computer science, deserves an apology.  His explanation blew me away because of the beautiful symmetry (or maybe we should say "recursion") in the unfairness of how Turing was prosecuted when seen through the light of how Turing constructed his famous "Turing Test".

It is well worth the read:
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/06/turing-test-and-prejudice.html


Posted by Tom Limoncelli at July 5, 2009 11:52 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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