On 12 November 1936, Alan Turing's seminal paper "On Computable Problems, with
an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" was publically presented for the
first time, at a meeting of the London Mathematical Society. If ever there was a date that should be commemorated as the birth of computer science as we now know it,
November 12th, 1936 would seem to be an appropriate choice.
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