"A week ahead of the Science Museum's Alan Turing exhibition - 'Codebreaker' - Matilda Battersby speaks to his old assistant and his nephew, to find out what drove one of Britain's greatest men, and looks at the machines that helped make his name."
IF interested, GOTO 'The Independent' |
"It is fitting that the greatest code-breaker of World War Two remains
a riddle a hundred years after his birth. Alan Turing, the brilliant,
maverick mathematician, widely considered to be the father of computer
science and artificial intelligence, invented an electromagnetic machine
called the 'bombe' which formed the basis for deciphering Germany’s
Enigma codes.
"The man himself has rather eluded definition: painted (too easily) as
a nutty professor with a squeaky voice; as a quirky, haphazard
character with a sloppy appearance by his mother and schoolmasters; by
colleagues as a gruff, socially awkward man; and by his friends as an
open-hearted, generous and gentle soul."
Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday Google Doodle is interesting one.
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