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Monday, 30 July 2012

Google Celebrates Alan Turing Birthday



Today you have came across Google Doodle of Alan Turing while opening Google homepage,yes
today our post is about that google Celebrating Mathematician Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday with a Turing Machine placed as a Google Doodle. Google is continously and without interruption honouring many people.
Dr.Alan Turing known as the father of artificial intelligence and computer science,commited suicide in
1954, just two weeks of compeleting his age 42.He involved in certain illegal things that was against the government norms.
His Homosexuality resulted in a prosecution and being homosexual was illegal in United Kingdom at that time.His research played a vital role in the building and creation of the modern computer. The Turing Award,first awarded in 1966, is considered to be ‘the Nobel Prize of Computing’ by the New York-based Association of Computing Machinery, carries a prize of $250,000 sponsored by Intel and Google.
The Google doodle to recognise this legendary mathematician is a brain teaser – the task: spelling GOOGLE in binary code.

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