Entries with the tag: ‘Computing’
This year is Alan Turing Year, named after Alan Mathison Turing who was born a hundred years ago, on 23rd June, 1912. Turing was a mathematician, who played an important role in the development of computing, He is famous for a number of things, most notably his role in the code breaking operations at Bletchley […]
A short while ago, I was having lunch with the publisher of Open Central Asia, (a quarterly magazine, published in the UK, which aims to connect and highlight the links between Europe and Central Asia), and he was asked if I would write an article for the magazine about the Presidential election here in Kyrgyzstan. […]
My move into computing came about like so many of the big events in my life – by accident. It all began when a teacher left the school. She taught one of the two computing classes, and as they were timetabled at the same time, the other teacher couldn’t take it over, so someone else […]
A friend of mine was looking for work recently and came across an advert for the post of a Chemistry teacher. He asked what I thought … should he apply. The obvious question that came to my mind was “why?” … First of all, his degree is in Restaurant Management … so why Chemistry? His […]
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