Turing's Cathedral
How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their ostensible goal was to build a computer which would be instrumental in the US government''s race to create a hydrogen bomb. The mathematicians themselves, however, saw their project as the realizatio...
How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their ostensible goal was to build a computer which would be instrumental in the US government''s race to create a hydrogen bomb. The mathematicians themselves, however, saw their project as the realizatio...
