The second lecture for new com tech was taken by THE stephen stockwell. The topic was 'history of computing'. This lecture was interesting as it started on the topic of the enigma code and finished somewhere around mac vs pc. The most interesting part for me was seeing the inportance of computers (or the equivalent) during war times. The importance was mainly seen in Alan Turing, a man who was hired by England, as well as many others, as a puzzle breaker to 'crack the enigma code'. Turing devised a plan to produce a machine that somewhat mimicked the enigma code (called a bomb). The idea was that this would allow the English soliders to understand the code. this 'bomb' became the prototype of the modern computer. Stephen Stockwell also shared that Alan Turing commited suicide after the war because he was gay, and somehow no longer useful to anyone...This was after he also created and offered more inventions to the world. The transformation of the modern day computer/internet began with a huge non-portable machine, which then became smaller, then easier, then there was internet, then it was portable, now its all in a phone. The transformation was slow, but when you look back at what it started at, you can't help but be amazed by the genius behind the whole process.
Sarmi Salami
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