This Month In the History of Information Technologies

This Month In the History of Information Technologies

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Turing Machine Born

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Today in 1936, Alan Turing delivered to the London Mathematical Society his paper β€œOn Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.”

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