A brilliant mathematician and a longforgotten hero of the second world war, he contributed to the allies victory by cracking the encrypted nazi codes, and as a result, he prepared the way for the dday landings. Alan turing est, sans aucun doute, lun des grands esprits scientifiques du xxeme siecle. Imitation game bande annonce teaser officielle vost 2015. Alan turing, subject of the oscarwinning 2014 film the imitation game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the british government to help decipher messages sent by germanys enigma machines during world war ii. Alan mathison turing was born on 23 june 1912, the son of julius mathison turing, a civil servant in india, and ethel sara turing, the daughter of edward waller stoney, chief engineer of the madras and southern mahratta railway.
Documentaire histoire l\homme qui a inspire imitation game. Bombe was the name of an electromechanical machine, developed during wwii by alan turing and gordon welchman, whilst working as codebreakers at bletchley park. Sitzkrieg was an eightmonth period at the start of world war ii, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the western front, when french troops invaded germanys saar district. It was used to help breaking the german enigma codes and was partly based on the socalled bomba, an earlier machine developed by polish mathematicians in 1938. Uc research profile university of canterbury new zealand. In 1945, the war over, turing was recruited to the national physical laboratory npl in london, his brief to design and develop an electronic computer. Aged 14, he was sent to sherborne school in dorset. In 1945, the war over, turing was recruited to the national physical laboratory npl in london, his brief to design and develop an electronic computer a concrete form of the universal turing machine. Lapport du mathematicien et cryptologue alan turing, qui collabore a. He rose to prominence when he cracked enigma, the code used by the nazis during wwii to direct their armies. In 1994, a stretch of the a6010 road the manchester city intermediate ring road was named alan turing way. Without a doubt, the key player in this game was alan turing. In the 60s and 70s, the winemakers of the south load their guns and make big headlines. The official book behind the academy awardwinning film the imitation game, starring benedict cumberbatch and keira knightleyit is only a slight exaggeration to say that the british mathematician alan turing 19121954 saved the allies from the nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decadesall before his suicide at age fortyone.
The imitation game is about a true life story of the english cryptanalyst, mathematician and logician alan. The most insightful stories about alan turing medium. Jack copeland frs nz is professor of philosophy at the university of canterbury, new zealand, where he is director of the turing archive for the history of computing. The work of turing and his colleagues at hut 8 created what became known as the bombe which descrambled the german navys messages and saved countless. You know him best as the inventor of the turing machine.
Copeland, jack 2014 interview with jack copeland, professor of philosophy at the university of canterbury, new zealand, and director of the turing archive for the history of computing. Questo articolo e acquistabile con il bonus cultura e con il bonus carta del docente. Turing, centenary edition, cambridge university press, 2012, isbn 9781107020580. Worldwide english title the man who cracked the nazi code. Davis visiting chair of interdisciplinary studies in the department of psychology at. See more ideas about alan turing, bletchley park and enigma machine. The imitation game is about a true life story of the english cryptanalyst, mathematician and logician alan turing. Professor jack copeland school of historical and philosophical.
His first day of term coincided with the 1926 general strike. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the turing machine, which can be. Alan turing character analysis in the shallows litcharts. How alan turing helped win wwii and was thanked with. Ultra, bletchley park and enigma, londres, orion books ltd, 2000 1re ed. The turing test is one of the most disputed topics in artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. Davis visiting chair of interdisciplinary studies in the department of psychology at georgetown university, washington dc. Without a doubt, alan turing was one of the boldest scientific minds of the twentieth century. Turing received the order of the british empire for the part he played.
And enigma is the most difficult problem in the world. Details alan turing, mathematicien anglais, est le premier a penser lordinateur moderne. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists. Alan turing, the enigma poche andrew hodges achat livre. His books include the essential turing oxford university press, colossus. Alan turing was a british computer scientist and logician. Comment atil pu, au debut des annees 1950, ecrire les tout premiers textes sur lintelligence artificielle. A bridge carrying this road was widened, and carries the name alan turing bridge. Alan cope is a biographical graphic novel written and illustrated by emmanuel guibert, translated from the french by kathryn pulver, and collects all three issues of the series.