Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Alan Turing Lecture

In the video on Alan Turing I was very astonished on how much Alan Turing contributed to our technology. I really did not have any idea of this information until it was presented to me in the film. It is great to see that he was continuing on contributing to the challenges of his own theories.He was not afraid of making mistakes or even other people judging his theories he continued on making them better.

There was the Bombe it was the name of an electro mechanical machine, developed during WWII by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. It was used to help breaking the German Enigma codes and was based on the so called bomba, an earlier machine developed by Polish mathematicians in 1938. There are decoded German codes that were secretly developed and extremely hard to crack. It only took a few weeks to crack the code, Alan Turing was truly a man of science and mathematics.

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