Posted on 03/25/2021 2:57:12 PM PDT by Ennis85
The Bank of England unveiled the design of a new banknote celebrating mathematician Alan Turing, who helped Britain win World War Two with his code-breaking skills but is believed to have killed himself after being convicted for having sex with a male partner.
The new 50-pound ($69) note features an image of Turing, mathematical formulae from a 1936 paper he wrote that laid the groundwork for modern computer science, and technical drawings for the machines used to decipher the Enigma code.
The polymer note also carries a quote by Turing about the rise of machine intelligence: “This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.”
Turing built on work by Polish mathematicians who had discovered how to read Germany’s Enigma code, finding a way to crack the Nazis’ increased security of the code.
That story was recounted in the 2014 film The Imitation Game in which Turing was played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
Turing’s work led to the decryption of German naval communications that helped allied convoys steer clear of U-boats and was pivotal in the Battle of the Atlantic.
He also developed a technique that led to the breaking of Germany’s more sophisticated Lorenz cypher.
Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man and underwent chemical castration with injections of female hormones to avoid imprisonment. He lost his security clearance to work with Britain’s GCHQ spy agency.
Homosexual sex was illegal in Britain until 1967.
Turing used cyanide to kill himself in 1954, aged 41, according to an inquest at the time. He was granted a royal pardon by Queen Elizabeth in 2013 for the criminal conviction that preceded his death.
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Hé didn’t take well to the hormone treatments.
I read somewhere that he was executed for buggery of a child!
Please read a little more.
that said, the guy was a genius. You can argue that he single-handedly saved more lives than anyone in the war! If he could just keep his hands off young boys!
He is being “honored” for being attracted to other men and then acting on it. An abomination, no matter how you look at it. It is and will be the curse of our age.
His shame was obvious when he “offed himself!”
He is being “honored” for being attracted to other men and then acting on it. An abomination, no matter how you look at it. It is and will be the curse of our age.
His shame was obvious when he “offed himself!”
Olivia Newton-John’s father worked at Bletchley Park during the war. According to her bio because he could speak fluent German he interrogated Hess and even took him out to dinner in London as part of that. Her maternal grandfather also won the Nobel prize in physics. He got physical before she did. :)
Good.
Interesting names they come up with. “Bletchley Park” for England. “Arlington Hall” for USA. Both names so innocuous and unassuming.
For what it’s worth, I actually worked at Arlington Hall while it was still a signal intelligence facility.
Because fags have very few people they can point to who have actually accomplished anything worthwhile.
Indeed. Some had different numbers of rotors, and other ways to tweak them. Breaking one was not a break of all.
How are they supposed to drive a false narrative with people like you mucking things up?/sarc
ROTFL!
Did Turing project how computers could encode SJW ideals, into the “human” computers?
First time I’ve read that fact.
If English high command wouldn’t user Turing’s knowledge, how did he th help win WWII?
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