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Alan Turing Timeline
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Alan Turing
A timeline
1930
1930
In 1930, Alan Turing's best and only schoolfriend,(and possible love interest) Christopher Morcom died of bovine tuberculosis. By many accounts, this was the point that Turing became an atheist.
2014
A film was released, titled "The Imitation Game", claiming to be a biography film of Alan Turing's life.
1912
1912
On the 23rd of June, 1912, Alan Turing is born.
1939
1939
Turing is recruited to Bletchley Park at the start of World War Two. He is assigned to Hut 8, a group within the division of Bletchley dedicated to breaking the German's Enigma Code. This is system used to encrypt radio messages so that even when the messages were intercepted the Allies got no usable information. With the help of his team, he built an improved version of a Polish machine known as the "Bombe". This improved Bombe was known as the "Turing Bombe". It is estimated that the creation of the Turing Bombe shortened the war by two years, and saved fourteen to twenty-one million
lives.
1950
1950
Turing created a test, the Turing Test, to determine whether a machine is intelligent. The rules are as follows: Person A has a conversation over text with Person B and a machine. Person A only knows them as X and Y. After the conversation is over, Person A has to decide whether X was a machine, or Y. If Person A mistook the human for the machine and vice versa over 30% of the time, that machine is intelligent.
1952
1952
Turing's house was robbed, and he was arrested for "gross indecency" (being gay) after he mentioned he was in a relationship with someone he thought might be the culprit. The judge gave him the choice of chemical castration and a year of hormone therapy, or prison. Turing chose the former.
1954
Turing was found dead in his bed. On his nightstand was a half-eaten apple (as he ate an apple every night before bed) with traces of cyanide on it. The death was officially ruled a blahbla suicide, although his mother always blahblahblah maintained that it was an accident, that blah he had inhaled cyanide in an
blah experiment and transferred it toblah to the apple when he bit into it.
1954
2013
Turing was royally pardoned for all gay-related "crimes", and as an apology for the "appalling way he was treated". Many people argue that this is too little, too late, as pardoning someone after they die is mostly just lip service. Still a nice gesture though.
2013
2014
2014
A movie was released, titled "The Imitation Game", based off "Alan Turing: The Enigma" (a biography of Turing) claiming to be the true story of Turing's life.