Alan Turing by manny https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38 pioneering English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. en-us 2016-08-16 08:43:42 UTC 2016-08-25 09:02:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Alan Turing scottfellows0 https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118396098 2016-08-16 08:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118396098 Leadership scottfellows0 https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118396381 Alan Turing showed that he was a leader during the second world war. He was a leader in the breaking of the German Ciphers at Bletchley Park. ]]> 2016-08-16 08:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118396381 Lifeline gubby15 https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118396613 1912 (23 June): Birth, Paddington, London
1926-31: Sherborne School
1930: Death of friend Christopher Morcom
1931-34: Undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge University
1932-35: Quantum mechanics, probability, logic. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
1936: The Turing machine, computability, universal machine
1936-38: Princeton University. Ph.D. Logic, algebra, number theory
1938-39: Return to Cambridge. Introduced to German Enigma cipher machine
1939-40: The Bombe, machine for Enigma decryption
1939-42: Breaking of U-boat Enigma, saving battle of the Atlantic
1943-45: Chief Anglo-American crypto consultant. Electronic work.
1945: National Physical Laboratory, London
1946: Computer and software design leading the world.
1947-48: Programming, neural nets, and artificial intelligence
1948: Manchester University, first serious mathematical use of a computer
1950: The Turing Test for machine intelligence
1951: Elected FRS. Non-linear theory of biological growth
1952: Arrested as a homosexual, loss of security clearance
1953-54: Unfinished work in biology and physics
1954 (7 June): Death (suicide) by cyanide poisoning, Wilmslow, Cheshire.
(Source:http://www.turing.org.uk/)
]]> 2016-08-16 08:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118396613 Royal Pardon gubby15 https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118396962 In December 2015, The Queen granted Turing a royal pardon for the crime committed of being gay.

The process took 4 years of campaigning, supported by the likes of Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins


A pardon from the Queen is a fitting tribute to an exceptional man.

Chris Grayling, Justice Secretary


]]> 2016-08-16 08:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118396962 Determination scottfellows0 https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118397282 Alan Turing showed determination because even though the Polish had a method of decrypting the messages he believed the Germans would change it and they did. His approach was more general, he produced a specification of the Bombe which was an improvement of the Polish's Bomba.]]> 2016-08-16 08:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118397282 Problem solving and Initiative manny123 https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118397594 Alan Turing showed his initiative and problem solving skills when he cracked the Enigma code. He created a computer which was "a single machine that can be turned to any well-defined task by being supplied with an algorithm, or a program."
http://www.livescience.com]]> 2016-08-16 09:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118397594 Hardworking scottfellows0 https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118397928 Alan Turing was very hard working. Within just weeks of of arriving at Bletchley Park, Turing had specified an electromechanical  machine that could help break the Enigma more effectively that the Polish Bomba]]> 2016-08-16 09:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118397928 The Imitation Game gubby15 https://padlet.com/manny123/uwwly54gsv38/wish/118398490 The game was created to test artificial intelligence. The game consisted of,in its modified instance, 3 rooms each connected via a computer screen and keyboard. In one room would be a Computer, another would be a man and in the other a judge. The judge will have to decide which of the contestants were human. Turing's theory were that 

if the judge were less than 50% accurate, that is, if a judge is as likely to pick either human or computer, then the computer must be a passable simulation of a human being and hence, intelligent.
http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/ai/turing.html
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