Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday

Google celebrates the legendary father of computer science, codebreaker, and tragic victim of sexual intolerance with today’s interactive doodle.

Can’t quite figure out how to play with the Google Turing machine? This video has some hints.

Here’s a fantastic Radiolab segment on Alan Turing.

As Steve Silberman wonders: 

Source: google.com

Experimental Fluid Abstractions, Right In Your Browser I’m sorry for giving you all so many addictive toys to play with. We’re never going to get anything done around here. From Felix Woitzel, we are given a fluid simulation of Turing patterns, for you to create your own liquidacious works of whimsy. Works best in Google Chrome, it looks like. Previous Productivity Killers: Paint your own nebula, an artistic fluid dynamics simulator, and a firecracker-esque particle/gravity simulator.
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Experimental Fluid Abstractions, Right In Your Browser

I’m sorry for giving you all so many addictive toys to play with. We’re never going to get anything done around here.

From Felix Woitzel, we are given a fluid simulation of Turing patterns, for you to create your own liquidacious works of whimsy. Works best in Google Chrome, it looks like.

Previous Productivity Killers: Paint your own nebula, an artistic fluid dynamics simulator, and a firecracker-esque particle/gravity simulator.