Life and Times of Alan Turing

The life and works of Alan Turing While other mathematicians and scientists like Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Liebniz, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace may have experimented with simple computing machines, it is Alan Turing who is generally regarded as the father of modern computing. Alan Turing’s work on the nature of thought and the potential for […]

Very Big Numbers

Very Big Numbers In a word A billion is certainly a large number but it used to be even bigger. In Britain, until the 1970s, a billion was considered to be a million million, that is one and twelve zeros (1 000 000 000 000). Since then, however, the American version of a billion has […]

Computer Chess – Man versus Machine

Man vs Machine – Computer Chess Computers are very clever machines. They follow sets of coded instructions called ‘programs’ to carry out lots of different tasks. They control traffic lights, read the barcodes on your shopping and even send emails around the world. New programs are making them even more intelligent, but can a computer […]