Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.
Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.
The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •I cried.
Also saw the one at Bletchley Park. Cried harder. They had plaques discussing it and I knew it all but it’s gut wrenching every time I remember the details.
BashStKid
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Whereas as of a few years ago Turing is on our highest value banknote.
Ironically, today’s Chief Cashier of the Bank of England who signs all those banknotes happens to be a woman from Alan’s Cambridge college.
That doesn’t excuse the hypocrisy and bigotry, it just shows it takes 50 or 60 years for the UK to admit a mistake.
Veranderwens
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •For what ??????
Not fitting in in smallminded society ??
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Shithole country then, shithole country now.
Just like the USA
Maddad ☑️
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum
German-American computer scientist noted for his opposition to excessive dependence on computers and to delegating genuinely human choices to them
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Alan Turing inventor of the Turing Test and the Turing Machine. Code Breaker at Bletchley Park during WWII.
On the eve of WWII Turing and other members of the secret service of UK and France travelled to a forest in Poland. The group met with officers of the Biuro Szyfró (crypto office) and where handed over the crypto analysis of enigma by Marian Rejeweski together with the Bombas (bombs) enabling the later success of Turing.
After WWII UK sold „unbreakable“ enigma
Son Light Life
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Richard Rathe
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Not to mention his work was considered top secret even after the war ended… so no recognition until after his death. So sad!
#AlanTuring #Hero #WWII
KBSez ✅
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Actually, the idea of his death being a suicide has been in question since his death and based on the excellent and regularly updated biography The Enigma Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges it is highly unlikely it was anything but an accident.
Hodges puts forth in his updates that based on interviews and evidence that Turing was careless with dangerous chemicals at times and spells out that his death was an accident. His work has convinced me.
Highly recommend the book
PadreWil
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •https://youtu.be/nuPZUUED5uk?feature=shared
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •"decrypted Enigma during WWII" is a phrase I would not fully agree with.
Enigma was first decrypted by Polish military intelligence before the war. And info was shared with French and British counterparts.
What Turing's team did during WWII was decrypting newer versions of Enigma based on that info and improving tools.
They also broke Lorentz code which was more complicated and important as being used in high command. Colossus, one of the first computers, was done for it.
Canadian Crone
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •If hose representatives are scared by the electors* from doing the RIGHT thing - why elect them?
And, worse: If not, what else?
(* they say)