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Homo Informaticus, from Plato and Aristotle to Alan Turing and Claude Shannon (philosophynow.org)
29 points by rassibassi on Jan 6, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Perhaps it is because this article was translated to English from French, but I find the writing a bit too brief and vague to provide a convincing historical narrative. And at least one fact is wrong - Turing did not name "Universal Turing Machines" after himself - he just called them "computing machines".




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