Thread: Alan Turing, & the apple

He certainly was. As a WW2 codebreaker and one of the 'fathers of computing', his ideas now affect everyone, although few have heard of him. Here's a concise summary Who was Alan Turing? - History's HEROES from E2BN

Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes in the UK, has a small bust of Alan Turing working with an Enigma machine. Made of small pieces of slate, it's an incredible likeness. It always takes me forever to upload a photo, so here's a link instead. File:Alan Turing Statue at Bletchley Park - geograph.org.uk - 1591025.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Happily, in December 2013, Alan Turing was given a posthumous royal pardon and an official apology from the prime minister at the time, Gordon Brown, who said the way Turing was persecuted over his homosexuality was "appalling".

A much maligned man who deserves his place in history.

Worth reading if you can find it:-

Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, 1983, PB 1985, 86, 87, 93,
ISBN 0 09 911641 3

Turing was the first to propose a basic theory of computing as we know it today, at a time when an actual practical machine was not even thought of as a possibility.

John

Mrs Hay Ewe and I went to Bletchly Park back in April 2014 and the we had placed some emphasis that it wasn't Turing. It was a bunch of them.

Like often, one person is the focus of the success but he couldnt have done it on his own.

In one of the rooms in the main house, on the walls are photographic portraits with a short biography of each person. There are maybe 40 pictures of the people that were involved.

It was a great place to visit and we would have liked more time, but we didn't.
For me, I can use a computer to do my work and surf the net etc, but codes, programs and maths, way beyond me.

Hay Ewe