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Alan Turing
Alan Turing (1912-1954)
Alan Mathison Turing who is known as the father of modern computer science, a mathematician, a scientist, logistician, cryptologist, philosopher and theoretical biologist but many of the people don't know how his work towards science which helped in ending the war 2 years earlier and saved millions of lives.
So why don't we know anything about him and why did he committed suicide as it seems.
Alan Turing was born on
Alan Mathison Turing born on 23, June, 1912 in Maida Vale, London. Turing was smart and intelligent from his childhood, he always liked maths and solving logical solutions, not only that he was good sports person too.
Turing's Family
Alan Turing's father Julius Mathison Turing was an Indian civil service ICS at chatrapur and Julius's wife, was Ethel Turing daughter of chief engineer in Madras railways.
Education
- 1918- At the age six in, Turing attended St.Micheal's a day school, the headmistress first recognized him for his talent and soon other teachers too.
- 1922 to 1926- Turing was educated in hazelhurst preparatory school, an independent school in village of frant in Sussex (now East Sussex)
- 1926- At the age of 13 he went to Sheborne school in Doset. He drove 60miles (97 km)) from Southampton to Sheborne he was so determined to attend. The teachers thought that Turing is wasting his time by attending there because they thought it would be wise if he attends a university.
- 1928- Turing was encountered with Einstein's work, not only he did grasp it but also managed to seduce Einstein's questioning in Newton's laws.
- 1931 to 1934- Turing started studying undergraduate in King's college, Cambridge. He was awarded first class honour for his brilliance in mathematics.
- 1935- Turing became a Fellow and a computer room is named after him.
- 1936 to 1938- Spent most of the time studying in Princeton University.
- 1939- Got PhD from department of mathematics, his dissertation system of logic based on ordinals, he introduced a concept of ordinal logic.
Thesis :-
System of logic based on ordinals which gave him PhD .
Tragedy (Lost mate)
Alan turing met Christopher Morcom in 1928 in Sheborne school. Marcom was also very good at numbers just like Turing, they both used to think like same. In fact, Morcom was inspired Turing in many ways but he got bovine tuberculosis by drinking infected milk, Christopher passed away in 1930. He was his first love. It was a hard time for him.
Turing was submerged with sorrow at that time but he used to exchange letters with Christopher's mother. He used he say how much he miss him and Christopher's mother wrote how much she missed her son, vice-versa.
The World War-2
In the year 1939, Germany declared a war on England which let to take many lives of innocent people. The Nazy army which was led by Hitler was smart and he used to make codes by using an enigma machine which are the locations of his attack places and weapon hiding places.
After knowing this The England government called all the intelligent mathematicians all over England to solve and decode the enigma codes. By studying the codes Turing said it's only possible to decode an enigma by using another enigma decoding machine but the government didn't like that plan as it takes huge amount of money to invest in something like that, but soon they government had no choice so they agreed to it. It gave birth to hut-8
Hut-8
Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station, located in Buckinghamshire) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing.
Turing's Team
With the help of Hugh Alexander, Stewart Menzies, John cairncross and Joan Clark who was the only lady there. As an unmarried woman it seemed wrong for the Clark's family, To make her stay and also for help in building the machine, Turing gets engaged with John Clark.
The Bombe
After solving many different equations, preparing hundreds of notes, writing down different kind of symbols, with assigning number of chains of languages, Finally the help of his fellow mathematicians they made a Enigma Code Breaking Machine and named it The Bombe. Which can easily decode Hitler's codes within span of 5 Minutes. To be frank this machine not only decoded but also changed the war by ending the war 2 years earlier and saved nearly more than 14 Million people, who knows if the codes weren't decoded Germany might have won too
But after the war ended the government ordered to destroy the machine, burn the blueprints too and splited up their team also ordered not to meet them again, he also broke his engagement with Joan Clark as he was a homosexual, which shocked Miss Clark and he was sorry for using her
But the work of Bletchley Park – and Turing's role there in cracking the Enigma code – was kept secret until the 1970s, and the full story was not known until the 1990s. It has been estimated that the efforts of Turing and his fellow code-breakers shortened the war by several years.
The National Museum of Computing
A working reconstruction of one of the most famous wartime machines is now on display at The National Museum of Computing. With Colossus, it is widely regarded as having shortened the war, saved countless lives and was one of the early milestones on the road to our digital world.
Turing's as a runner
In 1947, after only two years of training, Turing ran a marathon in 2:46. ... He was even in contention for a spot on the British Olympic team for 1948 before an injury held him to fifth place at the trials. Had he competed and run at his personal best time, he would have finished 15th.
Turing's Test
The Turing's Test, was originally called as The Imitation Game by Alan Turing in 1950.
Turing's test is a test of a machine's ability to exibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural languages between humans and a machine designed to generate human like responces. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation is a machine and all participants would be separated from one another. The conversation would be limited to text only such as a computer keyboard and screen so the result would not be depend on the machine's ability to render words as speech if the evaluator cannot reliability tell the machine from the human, The machine said to have passed the test. The test results do not depend on the machine's ability to give correct answers to questions, only how closely it answers resemble those humans would give
This test was introduced by Turing in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" while working on University of Manchester. Turing said that "I propose to consider the question, 'can machine's think?'"
Conviction Of Indecency
In the year 1952 of January, Turing was punished for having a relationship with another man named Arnold murray. At that time in England LGBT (lesbian,gay , bisexual, transgender) was a crime there.
Instead of going to jail, Turing agreed for chemical castration treatment to work on his project but it made him weak both mentally and physically.
In the year 1954, just 16 days before his 42nd birthday he commits suicide as it seemed by eating an poisoned apple
Official Apology by Government
In year 2009 the government of England legalised the LGBT, By LGBT rights Turing received an Royal pardon for his conviction in year 2013
The Movie
In the year 2014, they made a movie about Alan Turing
Turing's life was an example for even now to that, No matter how talented, hardworking, great person you are people always search for black marks of you ,,,
Turing's Test is still being used and many claim him as unofficial father of Artificial Intelligence
Turing's Quotes
Ahoy! ATB keep writing
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