Comment Father of Computing (Score 1) 146

by soboroff on Thursday June 23, 2011 @02:00PM (#36544312) Attached to: Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday

"Modern computing"? He's the father (or certainly one of the fathers) of computation as any sort of scientific or mathematical discipline.

Comment Hey Rocky... (Score 4, Funny) 155

by soboroff on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @10:56AM (#29440319) Attached to: First Rocky Exoplanet Confirmed

.... watch me pull a planet out of my hat!

by soboroff on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @06:52AM (#29021343) Attached to: Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over

You go to evolution with the planet you have, not the planet you wish you had.

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I had the rare misfortune of being one of the first people to try and implement a PL/1 compiler. -- T. Cheatham