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On 7 June 1954, at the age of just 41, the world lost one of its greatest minds.

Alan Turing died today in 1954.

Alan Turing was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and the "Father of Modern Computer Science."

His groundbreaking work at Bletchley Park, cracking the Nazi Enigma code, is credited with shortening World War II by several years and saving countless lives.

He laid the theoretical foundations for artificial intelligence, proposed the Turing Test, and developed the fundamental concepts that power the digital world we live in today.

Yet despite his monumental contributions, Turing was persecuted by the British government for being gay.

In 1952, he was convicted of “gross indecency,” chemically castrated, and stripped of his security clearance.

He died by cyanide poisoning two years later.

In 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a formal apology.

In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous royal pardon.

On this anniversary, we remember not only Turing’s extraordinary intellect but also the tragic cost of prejudice.

His legacy endures in every computer, every algorithm, and every advance in AI.

Thank you, Alan.

Your ideas changed the world.

Your story continues to inspire it. 🕊️

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Alan Mathison Turing

23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954

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Cyptanalyst Elizebeth Friedman and her team broke ~4,000 codes during WWII and brought down a Nazi spy ring by cracking an early version of the Enigma machine with only pen and paper. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: How Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman Fought Nazi Spies | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

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This is a guest post submitted by Nathan Sanders and colleagues. It's the text of an open letter to Neil deGrasse Tyson, who made a comment about linguists on Twitter not long ago. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, As fellow scientists, we linguists appreciate the work you do as a spokesperson for sc

A recent guest post on Language Log is an open letter to Neil deGrasse Tyson about the role of linguists versus cryptographers in Arrival: 

As fellow scientists, we linguists appreciate the work you do as a spokesperson for science. However, your recent tweet about the film Arrival perpetuates a common misunderstanding about what linguistics is and what linguists do:

In the @ArrivalMovie I'd chose a Cryptographer & Astrobiologist to talk to the aliens, not a Linguist & Theoretical Physicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson), 1:40 PM – 26 Feb 2017

Though the term linguist is often used by the public to refer generally to anyone whose occupation is related to language (especially translators and interpreters), the type depicted in Arrival is a special kind of linguist who engages in the scientific study of human language: its structures, its uses, its underlying similarities, and its surprising diversity. A cryptographer simply cannot replicate the specialized training that a linguist like Louise Banks has, which takes years to learn and decades to master.

Most importantly, a cryptanalyst would likely be much less suited to the task of communicating with aliens than a linguist would (a cryptographer even less so, since they work on encryption, not decryption). Cryptanalysis relies on decrypting coded messages from a known language. If the source language and the encryption method are both unknown, ordinary cryptanalytic methods will fail. This is why the Native American code talkers of the 20th century were so invaluable to the US in both world wars: their languages were not understood by enemy cryptanalysts, so their encrypted versions could not be cracked, unlike with well-known languages like English.

Read the full open letter or see also many previous posts about the linguistics of Arrival.

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Alan Turing

1912-1954

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Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist who is often called the "father of the modern computer". While he didn't invent the computer, he mathematically proved that computation was possible with a limited set of operations. He also conceptualized a "universal machine" that could solve any mathematical problem in symbolic form, later known as a "universal Turing machine". Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science.

Sir Winston Churchill stated that Turing's work deciphering the Nazi's Enigma Code was, "The greatest single contribution to victory in the second world war."

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