tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post113895546327152678..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: New Yorker Turing profileSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1139113287733988222006-02-04T23:21:00.000-05:002006-02-04T23:21:00.000-05:00Emma: Good point. The Poles were working on Enigma...Emma: Good point. The Poles were working on Enigma for many years before the British. Perhaps I should have written that Turing's contribution was the greatest at Bletchley Park!<BR/><BR/>Dave: I think Turing's stock will continue to grow with time. He really was a tremendously deep thinker.Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1138996981517070972006-02-03T15:03:00.000-05:002006-02-03T15:03:00.000-05:00Turing's insight about universal computers is so t...Turing's insight about universal computers is so taken for granted these days that I think we forget how important an insight it was.<BR/><BR/>Another thing Turing did was to rediscover the quantum zeno effect and he had a very strong interest in the foundations of quantum theory. I sometimes wonder if he had lived longer if the idea of quantum computers would have arisen earlier. Of course Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com