ALAN TURING
The man you probably don't know about, who saved millions of lives.
THE END OF THE WAR
How one man changed our history
AN UNKNOWN HERO
Alan Turing was a genius - a man ahead of his time. During Word War II, he helped Britain defeat the Nazis. Historians say that the Second World War ended two years earlier because of Alan Turing's work. This means that he saved over 14 million lives, some even estimate 21 million. If it weren't for him, some of us wouldn't even be here. So, who was this man? And what did he do?
ALAN TURING
A young genius
Even when he was young, Alan Turing was fascinated by science and mathematics. There are people who believe that he had Asperger's Syndrom, but we don't know for sure. What we do know is that he was extremely smart. After college he wrote a paper called "On Computable Numbers", in which he wrote about a machine called the Universal Turing Machine, that could solve any mathematical problem. The machine was so far ahead of its time, that it couldn't even be built yet. However, his idea for a machine (hardware) that could be programmed (software) to do different tasks, decribes every computer today.
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The Enigma
Before we learn more about Alan Turing, we have to talk about the German Enigma code. During WW2, the Germans encoded their messages with this machine. It was called the Enigma. The code changed every day, so it was very hard to decipher the messages send by the Nazis. The Brits had a bunch of people who where trying to break the code daily, but they never got far.
THE BOMB
The British Government quickly realized how brilliant Turing was. So when war broke out with Germany in 1939, he was invited to Bletchley Park with some of the smartest people of the time. The geniuses at Bletchley Park had to solve the almost impossible problem of breaking the Enigma code. Long story short: the codebreakers won, by creating machine called "the bomb" that cracked the Enigma code. And Turing played a lead role in that.
A SAD ENDING
Why Alan Turing never saw the world he helped to build.
In 1952 Turings life started turning bad. Police arrested Turing when they found out he was having a relationship with a man. Turing admitted to being guilty to try to minimize damage to his career. The judge offered him a choice: spend one year in prison or endure an experimental hormone treatment to “fix” his sexual orientation. Alan chose the chemical castration, which, among other things, made him grow breasts. He developed a severe depression. A year later, he died of cyanide poisoning. Some people believe it was an accident, because his brain didn't work that well anymore, some people believe it was suicide. An apple was left by his bedside. The 20th century had lost one of its smartest people.
As the father of computer science and a theorist of artificial intelligence, today Turing is thought to be one of the 20th century’s most important people. But, tragically, he never saw the world he helped build: instead, he was being arrested and tortured by the government he helped save. Until the year 2009 Turing was still declared a criminal.
It took a long time for Turing to get the respect in death that he never got in life. In 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized for the government’s treatment of Turing. Brown’s apology came after 30,000 British citizens signed an on-line petition. Describing Turing's treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair", Brown said the country owed the brilliant mathematician a huge debt. He was proud, he said, to offer an official apology. "We're sorry, you deserved so much better," In late 2013, Queen Elizabeth II pardoned Turing.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Alan Turing
ALAN TURING
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ALAN TURING
The man you probably don't know about, who saved millions of lives.
THE END OF THE WAR
How one man changed our history
AN UNKNOWN HERO
Alan Turing was a genius - a man ahead of his time. During Word War II, he helped Britain defeat the Nazis. Historians say that the Second World War ended two years earlier because of Alan Turing's work. This means that he saved over 14 million lives, some even estimate 21 million. If it weren't for him, some of us wouldn't even be here. So, who was this man? And what did he do?
ALAN TURING
A young genius
Even when he was young, Alan Turing was fascinated by science and mathematics. There are people who believe that he had Asperger's Syndrom, but we don't know for sure. What we do know is that he was extremely smart. After college he wrote a paper called "On Computable Numbers", in which he wrote about a machine called the Universal Turing Machine, that could solve any mathematical problem. The machine was so far ahead of its time, that it couldn't even be built yet. However, his idea for a machine (hardware) that could be programmed (software) to do different tasks, decribes every computer today.
+info
The Enigma
Before we learn more about Alan Turing, we have to talk about the German Enigma code. During WW2, the Germans encoded their messages with this machine. It was called the Enigma. The code changed every day, so it was very hard to decipher the messages send by the Nazis. The Brits had a bunch of people who where trying to break the code daily, but they never got far.
THE BOMB
The British Government quickly realized how brilliant Turing was. So when war broke out with Germany in 1939, he was invited to Bletchley Park with some of the smartest people of the time. The geniuses at Bletchley Park had to solve the almost impossible problem of breaking the Enigma code. Long story short: the codebreakers won, by creating machine called "the bomb" that cracked the Enigma code. And Turing played a lead role in that.
A SAD ENDING
Why Alan Turing never saw the world he helped to build.
In 1952 Turings life started turning bad. Police arrested Turing when they found out he was having a relationship with a man. Turing admitted to being guilty to try to minimize damage to his career. The judge offered him a choice: spend one year in prison or endure an experimental hormone treatment to “fix” his sexual orientation. Alan chose the chemical castration, which, among other things, made him grow breasts. He developed a severe depression. A year later, he died of cyanide poisoning. Some people believe it was an accident, because his brain didn't work that well anymore, some people believe it was suicide. An apple was left by his bedside. The 20th century had lost one of its smartest people.
As the father of computer science and a theorist of artificial intelligence, today Turing is thought to be one of the 20th century’s most important people. But, tragically, he never saw the world he helped build: instead, he was being arrested and tortured by the government he helped save. Until the year 2009 Turing was still declared a criminal.
It took a long time for Turing to get the respect in death that he never got in life. In 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized for the government’s treatment of Turing. Brown’s apology came after 30,000 British citizens signed an on-line petition. Describing Turing's treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair", Brown said the country owed the brilliant mathematician a huge debt. He was proud, he said, to offer an official apology. "We're sorry, you deserved so much better," In late 2013, Queen Elizabeth II pardoned Turing.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Alan Turing