Historical Events tagged with "algorithms"
Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.
Alan Turing Submits Landmark Paper for Publication
Alan Turing submitted a groundbreaking work titled 'On Computable Numbers' to the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. This paper introduced the concept of a theoretical computing machine, now known as the Turing machine, which played a pivotal role in the development of computer science. Turing's exploration of algorithmic computability laid foundational concepts that would influence future thinkers and technological advancements. His ideas emerged from a desire to understand the limits of computation and the nature of mathematical reasoning.
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