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Nobody should get credit for inventing something in secret. You make your decision — invent for corporations or the military industrial complex and get the big
by dwoozle 7y ago
Nobody should get credit for inventing something in secret. You make your decision — invent for corporations or the military industrial complex and get the big bucks or the jingoistic frisson, or for academia and get the accolades. No way a person should double dip.
- ZenPsycho 7y agoso you would revoke credit from Turing?
- cortesoft 7y agoDid anyone else discover what he did before his work became public?
- ZenPsycho 7y agoyep, eniac and univac were the the first publicly known computers. it became known later that turing’s work predated eniac.
- dTal 7y agoCredit for what? The theoretical work for which Turing is most known - the concept of Turing machines and undecidability - was published publicly and before the war. He did not contribute to the design of a physical computer until after the war. Colossus, the code-breaking "computer", was not of his design (and the man who did design it is not at all famous for it).
- ColinWright 7y agoIt's not a question of credit, it's a question of attribution and historical accuracy.