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The first recording of computer music was playing at the wrong pitch for decades

In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...
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Alan Turing's iconic paper on a 'universal computing machine' goes up for auction

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Several Alan Turing papers, including "On Computable Numbers," are going to auction in June. | ...
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The annotated Turing : a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on computability and the Turing machine / Charles Petzold

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of ...
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Who was Alan Turing?

What role did Alan Turing play in World War II? Are the Turing Machine and the Turing Test the same thing? Machine learning and AI would not have become what they are today without the theoretical and ...
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Enigma Machine

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine ...