#enigma code

[earlgraytay]

Today I learnt the Enigma code was partly cracked with the Power of Love!

...Just, uh, maybe not the way one might think.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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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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[lenbryant]

Remembering Alan Turing (the day after his birthday)

(From the Writer's Almanac archive) It’s the birthday of mathematician and logician Alan Mathison Turing, born in London, England (1912), who was a pioneer in the development of the computer. In school, Turing’s instructors tried to get him to study a variety of subjects, but he was only interested in science and mathematics. While a graduate student at King’s College, he wrote a paper called “On Compatible Numbers,” in which he introduced his idea for what was later called the Turing Machine, a computer that, if given enough explicit instructions, could perform step-by-step mathematical operations. He described a machine that would read a series of ones and zeros from a tape, which is the theoretical basis of the way computers work today. During World War II, he served with the British Government Code and Cypher School, where he played a significant part in breaking the German “Enigma” code.

In 1948, Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at the University of Manchester, where he worked on the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine (MADAM), the computer with the largest memory capacity at the time. He also championed the idea of artificial intelligence, and believed that machines could be created that would mimic the processes of the human brain.

In 1950, he proposed the Turing test: a tester asked questions via a keyboard to both a person and a computer. If the tester could not tell the machine apart from the person after a reasonable amount of time, the machine possessed intelligence. Turing’s scientific works were unfortunately never completed. He was arrested in 1952 for violation of British homosexuality statutes. Two years later he committed suicide.

[ctyguidelondon]

This is Alan Turing’s office at Bletchley Park, where he worked on cracking the Enigma codes during World War II. I’ve always assumed that geniuses would have a tidy workspace, but nope. If you go and visit Alexander Fleming’s lab at St Marys Hospital then it’s exactly the same as this - a messy desk overflowing with pens and papers and files and folders.

[fandomforward]

8 things you didn't know about Alan Turing

Alan Turing is hailed as the father of the computer, single-handedly helping the Allies defeat the Germans by cracking the Nazi Enigma code. But he was also a gifted athlete, a sloppy dresser and defiant in the face of the law.

February is LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. Today, we’re going to spotlight Alan Turing. This PBS News Hour article is from 2014 but here are some facts you may not have not known about him

[sexy-clown]

rip alan turing, you would’ve loved html

[pol-ski]

Henryk Zygalski [L], Jerzy Różycki [C] and Marian Rejewski [R]

[elenatria]

I think it’s so funny that you posted the picture of Legasov holding the wine glass when Vampire Putin tried to “obscure” it by blurring bits, as if it’s a super secret photo 😂😂😂 I gotta admit I howled when I saw that you’d posted it. Keep up the good work comrade

Do you know what archaeologists think when faced with puzzles and missing pieces? 

“Challenge accepted.”

There are no secrets from the KGB, comrade.