How Alan #Turing invented the computer age

I’m very pleased to announce that Scientific American has published an essay I wrote titled, “How Alan Turing invented the computer age” in their Guest Blogs. The essay is 1,000 words long and gives a brief history of Turing’s from his 1936 paper “On computable numbers…” through his WWII code breaking, to his post-war work on machine intelligence, his conviction and tragic suicide. It was quite a challenge to get all that into 1,000 words.
   Scientific American has an interesting range of blogs, which I recommend to you.

from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-alan-turing-invented-computer-age.html