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Without Turing, no computers; which country honors his 100th birthday?

Written in: Dutch • Jacqueline van der Pas • June 11, 2012

You would think that the hundredth birthday of Alan Turing, the founder of modern computer science, would be commemorated worldwide with postage stamps. But nothing could be further from the truth. To date, I have not found a single stamp that is specially for...

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