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Alan Turing and his personal life
Alan Turing was one of the most influential computer scientists and mathematicians of his time. Sadly since he was a gay man during the early 1900s, his country did not give him the recognition he deserved to do the law that condemned homosexuality. Luckily today, the queen and academic universities continue to provide him with the attention he deserves. -
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Turing's Schooling
Hazelhurst Preparatory School from 1922-1926
Sherborne School (Prep School)
King's College - Cambridge 1931-1934
Princeton University (shadowing Dr. Church) 1936 to 1938
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Photo of young Alan Turing at 16.
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Below is a young Alan Turing when he was in College and a quote about his infleunces on WWII
"Bruce, did you know that it was an openly gay Englishman who was as responsible as any man for winning the Second World War? His name was Alan Turing and he cracked the Germans’ Enigma code so the Allies knew in advance what the Nazis were going to do. and when the war was over he committed suicide he was so hounded for being gay.Ned Weeks in Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart (1984), a play that depicted the gay community’s transition into a more socially conscious, politically organized group. -
Video from Cambridge University depicting the life of Alan Turing
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The Turing Machine
"To explore the limit of what can be mathematically or logically proven, Turing imagined a machine that runs on instructions printed on tape. The machine can read both instructions and data from the tape, and can, in turn, write to the tape." - Source:
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Turing's legacy
"Turing’s 1936 paper and commented that the paper now stands as the foundation of computer science. when Turing wrote the paper, it was a result in mathematical logic, computer science did not yet exist as an academic discipline, and the modern computer had not been invented." (Bernard, 147) Bernhardt, Chris. Turing’s Vision : The Birth of Computer Science. The MIT Press, 2016. -
Hut 8 + the naval Enigma
IN 1939 Alan Turing figured out and solved some of the most complicated military operations of the German naval ship called the Enigma. The below quote explains what Turing said about that discovery "though I was not sure that it would work in practice, and was not, in fact, sure until some days had actually broken."- Alan Turing -
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Bletchley Park - War Efforts Homebase
Alan Turing lived in Bletchley Park from 1939 to 1940 to help with his computing efforts during the second world war. Source: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2012/turing-biography/ -
How Turing helped win WWII
"Turing designed machines, known as “bombes”, that could cycle through hundreds and thousands of Enigma settings to match the available “cribs” (the most frequently occurring words across messages) in order to identify the correct key." -http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2012/turing-biography/ -
Bombe
"Turing designed machines, known as “bombes”, that could cycle through hundreds and thousands of Enigma settings to match the available “cribs” (the most frequently occurring words across messages) in order to identify the correct key. It was extremely difficult work, tense and taut, equal parts educated guesswork and puzzle solving". - Shreeharsh Kelka -
Photo of the Turning Machine
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Turing test -Alan Turing and his exploration on AI
"His last paper, on morphogenesis, is again computationalist: Turing describes a mathematical model (or an algorithm) that can explain the development of certain biological “forms”, or body shapes and structures. To prove his point, he simulated this model on the computing machine that he was working on at Manchester after the war, and demonstrated the forms which it can give rise to." Source: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2012/turing-biography/ -
Turning's Death + Government Pardon
Alan Turing was found dead at the age of 41 years of age and some experts suggest it was suicide or overexposure to a deathly chemical he has while working on more inventions. Although Turing was not given much recognition during his lifetime do to him living as a gay man Alan has since been pardoned by the United Kingdom for all of his efforts to help the war and the invention of his computing machines.
