[Cryptography] Farewall, Alan Turing

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Jun 6 16:45:56 EDT 2015


Died 1954, from a cyanide-laced apple.  The Father of Computer Science, 
and breaker of Enigma.

Some think it was suicide (because of his homosexual tendencies), whilst 
other believe it was murder.

Is there a computer programmer alive today who has not written a Turing 
Machine to compute the GCD?  Bloody hell, but it took a long piece of 
tape...

In memory of two of my CompSci lecturers, Dr. Graham McMahon, and Dr. 
John Lions...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)   "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)


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