Lecture 12.3: The Amazing Alan Turing - Richard Buckland (extension lecture) UNSW 2008

Not being aware of the Polish role in cracking
the German code is unforgivable...goof

Before you victimise england over homosexual criminality, please note that Australia would still have locked up Turing 7 years after it was legalised in England. And that is best case - Tasmania were 30 years behind England on decriminalisation.

Great lecture.But... It's sad that he didn't even mention that decryption of ENIGMA was mostly work of Polish mathematicians: Rejewski, Różycki and Zygalski. Commercial version of ENIGMA was deciphered in 1932. In January 1938, Polish Cipher Bureau's German was able to read nearly 75% of all mesages. In 1939 Poles gave their know-how to the Brits and French and started working with allies in decyphering new ENIGMA(meanwhile Nazi impreved machine).

He drops a few notes, but most of this is excellent. Thanks for the long post mate.

i don't like his waffly statements... if u r gonna do a lecture about smthing, at least do ur research d*mn it!!

exactly, he's not sure about anything

am glad u said that, during my undergrad I had a lot of faker-teachers... very badly prepared... but i was too young to say STFU and give me a refund...

I love the fast talking. *Gobbles the information*

Probably not contemplating why he'd be jailed for being gay, no understanding of the British law of the time

what the hell, "was turing a paedophile?" -random.