In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and. In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Alan Turing, the gen. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.īut his vision went far beyond this achievement. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyĪlan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War.
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