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Google celebrates Turing's birthday with a doodle

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:29 am
by highdesert
June 23rd, 3012 is the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, who has been called the father of computing.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... _computing

Google created a doodle on their search page - http://www.google.com. CNET shows how to solve it for the mathematically challenged like myself.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57459 ... ng-doodle/

Re: Google celebrates Turing's birthday with a doodle

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:50 am
by lemur
Thank you for pointing this out. I saw a small version of the doodle but did not pay attention to it. I almost never land on Google's top page.

I managed to figure it out but then again I have the kind of training that would help in this. I still had to figure out what the programming symbols mean. I probably saw Turing machines somewhere in an intro class way back when but my guess is that it was covered in 10 minutes as an historical advance in computing and then we moved on to something else.

Re: Google celebrates Turing's birthday with a doodle

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:35 pm
by JayFromPA
Go through it once, and then on the second go-round it increases the difficulty with new puzzles.