Showing posts with label Enigma. Show all posts
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Monday, 18 January 2016

THE IMITATION GAME: ALAN TURING, CREATOR OF MODERN COMPUTING



"Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of 
who do the things no one can imagine"


Alan Turing was a prodigy endowed with incredible stubborness and will power. He succeeded in an apparently impossible enterprise saving thousands of lives during WWII: he invented a machine to decrytp  Enigma, the Germans' secret code, thus boycotting many of their deadly attacks on Britain. He saved all those lives  thanks to his ingenious intuition, algorithms and computing being almost a game to him . He contributed to change the outcomes of a horrifying war,  designing his machine which could compute thousands of figures at a speed a human mind could have never achieved, neither the most brilliant. He is now considered one of the fathers of computer science and a war hero.