The Paternity of the Modern Computer
| Autor: | Aurea Anguera de Sojo, Juan A. Lara, Juan Pazos, Shadi Aljawarneh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Philosophy of science
Multidisciplinary Point (typography) Scope (project management) 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 050905 science studies 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Field (computer science) Epistemology History and Philosophy of Science Order (exchange) 060302 philosophy 0509 other social sciences Set (psychology) Turing computer Computer memory computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Foundations of Science. 27:1029-1040 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8471 1233-1821 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10699-021-09797-y |
| Popis: | In recent decades, there has been a proliferation among the scientific community of works that focus on Alan Turing’s contributions to the design and development of the modern computer. However, there are significant discrepancies among these studies, to such a point that some of them cast serious doubts on Alan Turing’s work with respect to today’s computer, and there are others that staunchly defend his leading role, as well as other studies that set out more well-balanced opinions. Faced with this situation, the aim of this paper is to analyse the evidence existing today in order to be able to draw a conclusion about whether or not Turing anticipated the trivialisation of the modern computer memory and, likewise, if his universal a-machine is the precursor of the general-purpose computer so omnipresent today. As a result of our research, the authors conclude that Turing did indeed play a leading role in the appearance of the modern computer, although he was not the only one or the first in the field of Computing Science, albeit he was the most influential, both in scope and in depth. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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