Alan Turing - My Favourite Scientist

Master codebreaker and father of computer science - Alan Turing was a genius touched by tragedy.

More favourite scientists at http://www.favscientist.com/

Thanks to James Grime for extra pics of the Enigma machine.

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  Science & Technology

[hedbiter]

Would youtube comments pass the Turing test I wonder.

[FavScientist]

ha ha... I wonder that myself sometimes!

[filip blicharski]

thats exactly what a robot would say!



[FavScientist]

thank you for your comment -INSERT USERNAME- and we look forward to your future contributions -END GOTO 10-

[ItsScienceBitch]

It was an absolute disgrace how our Government and fellow country men treated Alan Turing. A national hero, and a genius. I suppose it is hard to judge the past, but really how petty and ungrateful. One of the greatest minds to congeal on our shores, driven to suicide by narrow minded troglodytes.

[phuturephunk]

This man dying was a real, unmitigated, completely avoidable tragedy. The type of brain needed to think up what he did is a one in a million...maybe even a billion..shot. Imagine what he could have thought up had he been able to continue his research into old age. Just an astonishing loss.

[seloc71]

I don't know why some strait men have got a problem with gay men. I think the more gay men the better because that means more women for me! YAY!!

[Argyris Galamatis]

anglo-saxon society => FAIL

[Christoffer Viken]

They are way too stupid to be machines; they pass, case closed. :p

[7278939496]

Wow, I had no idea about that. All I knew of Turing was that he cracked the Enigma code. Absolutely horrible what they did to him. And the countless other men and women that get treated unfairly just because they aren't the way others say they should be.

[MrEyecikjou]

Bow before the father of all computing and its science... Alan Turing!

[TheStarfkr]

It is not know if he actually laced the apple with cyanide. The apple was never tested. I think the apple thing is more likely a myth but it endures. In the Animatrix, there are 2 segments titled, The Second Renaissance Part 1 & Part 2. An apple features in both segments which are also about an A.I. takeover. I can't help but think that's a reference to Turing.

[SychoAirsoftSquad]

Ohmydays i'm from bletchely! never heard of this guy! madness

[Otto Hon]

Great man, tragic end and only because people are stupid :(