| Title:
| Celebrating the UK's Computer Pioneers
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| Description:
| The computer seems the very essence of the modern world, especially as the gadgets we sit before and carry around shrink as fast as they become more powerful.
But if truth be told the computer has had a long and honourable history that stretches back to the closing years of the World War II.
And, say conservations and computer history enthusiasts, Britain played a big part in the development of the modern computer.
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[Alan] Turing established the conceptual and philosophical basis for the rise of computers in a seminal 1936 paper called "On Computable Numbers".
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| Author:
| BBC News
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| Orig. Date:
| July 24, 2008
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:59:10 -0700
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