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June 22, 2012 11:20 pm GMT
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Is This the Smartest Google Doodle Yet?
Another day, another awesome interactive Google doodle. This one -- which hits Saturday in the U.S., but you can see it already in the Australian and New Zealand versions of Google -- celebrates Alan Turing, famed British computer scientist, artificial intelligence pioneer and all-round math whiz.
Turing, who died a heartbreaking and utterly avoidable death at the age of 41, would have been 100 on Saturday. So the Google team is honoring his memory with a virtual version of the Turing Machine -- a concept that helps explain how a CPU thinks in binary, ie. 1s and 0s.
The doodle is incredibly hard to figure out if you're not a comp sci geek, so we hope it isn't giving too much away…
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