Tuesday, September 13, 2011
TURING'S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson
"In the digital universe, there are two kinds of bits: bits that represent structure (differences in space) and bits that represent sequence (differences in time). Digital computers — as formalized by Alan Turing, and delivered by John von Neumann — are devices that translate between these two species of bits according to definite rules." Full piece @ Edge

Labels: computation, information, turing, Von Neumann