The Google homepage today has the representation of a machine not exactly familiar with all.
But suddenly, after fidgeting round with the buttons and when the Google logo comes up in the known colours, one starts liking it. The device is actually a functioning Turing machine.
The latest Google Doodle is a representation of the Turing machine celebrating the 100th birth anniversary of Alan Turing.
Turing is considered as the father of computing and artificial intelligence.
His device was used in cracking codes and in explaining the logic of a computer algorithm that helped in functioning of the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer.
Google Doodle
The Google Doodle on the other hand is an interactive doodle, that allows the users to perform a set of six different tasks. With each of the tasks being successfully performed, the Google logo gets filled (with the known colours).
Alan Turing
Turing is best known for cracking the German secret codes during the Second World War.
His machine, a Turing machine, is a device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules and was developed by the scientist in 1936.
Turing's theory made an impact and is considered as the first step in the construction of the first computers.
In 1952, he was found guilty of homosexuality (then considered a crime in UK). Two years later he killed himself at the age of 41.