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alphadogg writes:
Google's Vint Cerf and others are spearheading celebrations in Silicon Valley and the UK this month to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. "The man challenged everyone's thinking," says Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, in an interview with Network World. "He was so early in the history of computing, and yet so incredibly visionary about it." Cerf — who is president-elect of the Association for Computing Machinery and general chair of that organization's effort to celebrate the upcoming 100th anniversary of Turing's birth on June 23 — says that it's tough to overstate the importance of Turing's role in shaping the world of modern computing. Turing's accomplishments included his breakthrough Turing machine, cracking German military codes during WWII and designing a digital multiplier called the Automated Computing Machine.
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stevegee58 writes:
After 25 years on the air, Tom and Ray Magliozzi (aka Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers) are calling it quits in September.
With their nerdy humor, explosive laughter and geek cred (both MIT alums) Tom and Ray will be sorely missed by the average NPR-listening Slashdotter.
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barefoot_professor writes:
Ray Bradbury, beloved science fiction author, has passed away. Need I say more? ;'(
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barefoot_professor writes:
Company Mars One ( http://mars-one.com/ ) aims to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2023. The project is to be privately funded by advertising and media attention, the ultimate reality show. Missions will begin in 2016 establishing a habitable settlement that will be ready when the first colonists arrive. New colonists are planned to arrive every two years after the first settlers in 2023.
