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THE IMITATION GAME
(Alan Turing: The Enigma)
Soon to be a major movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing.
The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, and Keira Knightley as his colleague and one-time fiancée Joan Clarke, won the people's choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific minds was lost.
ALAN TURING, ENIGMA
Deutsch von Rolf Herken und Eva Lack
[HC Springer 10/89. RR 03/04]
Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific minds was lost.
ALAN TURING, ENIGMA
Deutsch von Rolf Herken und Eva Lack
[HC Springer 10/89. RR 03/04]
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Published 1983-05-11 by Burnett Books |