[Bobalu]

Yes, an interesting read.

An early computer known as Colossus was built by Tommy Flowers, an engineer of the British telephone system. He followed the design suggested by Turing in his 1936 paper "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem"

That paper is one of the most important scientific papers ever written.

Turing was on a par with scientific greats like Newton and Einstein.

Colossus was used to break coded messages created by the German code machine called "Tunny" it was a 12 rotor machine loosely based on the German Enigma machine. Like Enigma, it was a one-time-pad automated system that relied on a pseudo-random number generator utilizing the rotor wheels in the machine.

The work at Blechley Park was kept secret for so long that it clouded the true history of computing...some facts are still secret.

Turing was later the key man on a team that created the worlds first programmable electronic computer with stored program... The Manchester Baby. also created in the UK.

Alan Turing

Tommy Flowers

The Manchester Baby

The Tunny machine

[fifedom]

That paper is one of the most important scientific papers ever written.

Turing was on a par with scientific greats like Newton and Einstein.

This is a load of crap. First, Turing was a mathematician, not a scientist. Newton was bith a brilliant scientist and mathematician. Einstein was a scientist but no mathematician. Turing's contribution is small potatoes compared with them.

Second, his paper was secondary to Godel's on the incompleteness theorem.

Turing's contributions are useful for theoretical computer science but have little to do with designing practical computers. The contributions of von Neumann. Eckert, and Mauchly are much more important for practical computers.

Actually, the principal contributions to today's computers are from Shockley and Grove and Moore and the thousands aof engineers who developed integrated circuits.

[VRW Conspirator]

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