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I've no idea what the etymology of the phrase is and to be fair it's not a very precise term but by whatever mechanism, social osmosis or otherwise, the term is there and is generally understood to refer to the period contemporary with Turing's work. Regardless, since the term "modern" is...

Sadly not so different to the attitude of a very small minority that allows someone like Ian Watkins to get mothers to allow the abuse of their own children.

An abacus is not just a set of beads with which you can count. In the right hands it can be used for complex calculations, computations you might say. Fair enough, presenting the abacus is perhaps stretching the point towards the realms of pedantry but it's also fair to say that there...

Computing goes back millennia - right back to the abacus.