Alan Turing - My Favourite Scientist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2011
- Master codebreaker and father of computer science - Alan Turing was a genius touched by tragedy.
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Thanks to James Grime for extra pics of the Enigma machine. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Happy 100th birthday Alan. Too bad you left us at the summit of your life. We were so ungrateful to you.
Yup.
@RevDevilin Turing built the Bombe Machine, the machine featured in this video, which was designed to break the Enigma code. Tommy Flower's Colossus is a completely different machine.
This made me so sad to hear of the horrible things that this wonderful man had to endure. What a great man to be treated in this way! Please let us learn from our mistakes.
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.
Splendid programme,,and comfortably presented. Many thanks and Best Wishes!
@qak89 At the beginning the British code breakers were using methods developed by the Polish. When the German military changed their procedures this method no longer worked. Turing built the Bombe machine to exploit a completely different flaw in the Enigma code. It was these methods that were used for the majority of the war. But he still named the machine Bombe in honour of the machine the Polish had used called Bomba.
Alan is one of my FAVORITE ever scientist!! :) Thanks for this video!
Just to say well done. The speaker is Jon Tepper from Notts Trent Uni, UK.
RIP Alan Turing, you live on through your work!
More my favourite scientist!
Turing is my favorite scientist and my role model.....
You're awesome!!!
The ad after this video started with "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Wow.
Bow before the father of all computing and its science... Alan Turing!
(Source :- Jack Good Archives)
Jack Good :-
"Turing's most important contribution, I think, was of part of the design of the bombe, the cryptanalytic machine. He had the idea that you could use, in effect, a theorem in logic which sounds to the untrained ear rather absurd; namely that from a contradiction, you can deduce everything."
interesting...an informative video
Brilliant video ! Hi Brady.. could you tell us please the name of the background music ?
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I don't think the Turing test proposed by Alan Turing was supposed to be taken as a serious "scientific platform", as Dennett says. Rather, it was to serve as a conversation stopper to those who comtemplated whether computers could ever display intelligence. Look up Dennett Turing Test on TH-cam and watch the video.
The homophobia of the past is quite shocking - to me at least.
Fascinating video.
Just so ya know, the information bar says Alan Turning, not Turing.
Turing's Storage computer model never got created......But it inspired all subsequent computers.....
Agreed!!!
Dr.James Grime!! Is that you????
I says a lot about your commitment as a film maker, Brady, that you would actually go to Africa to film this lion family so you would have material to cut into this episode.
:P
BOMBE
Ohmydays i'm from bletchely! never heard of this guy! madness
RIP
I don't think that we can even imagine what benefits humanity might have enjoyed had Turing lived long enough to partner with John von Neumann and truly probe the essence of computational and complex systems. No amount of 'social order' or whatever those who promote the hatred of people who live their lives differently believe can be derived through coerced conformity could ever outweigh the damage done to us all with that coercion. Progress is always a rejection of the accepted order.
@hedbiter ha ha... I wonder that myself sometimes!
Would youtube comments pass the Turing test I wonder.
I used to live in Milton Keynes (Wavendon Gate) and I mentioned Alan a few times... nobody there knew who the hell I was talking about... they were more interested in Cleo Laine. The stupids! Only kidding... people are people and interests are interests. (oh, whilst working at amazon UK - Bedford. The irony!)
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it was polish matematician Marian Rajewski who broke the enigma code, Turing only based on Rajewski's work, Turing was great mathematician indeed, but why calling him a hero, when someone else done the job?
There are plenty of flesh-and-blood types who seem to be robots as well... how would they fare?
@FavScientist thats exactly what a robot would say!
I used to live in Milton Keynes (Wavendon Gate) and I mentioned Alan a few times... nobody there knew who the hell I was talking about... they were more interested in Cleo Laine. The stupids! Only kidding... people are people and interests are interests.
Great man, tragic end and only because people are stupid :(
@13baldjj From watching youtube videos, i get the impression that Nikola Tesla's greatest invention was the tinfoil hat.
:-/
I love Alan Turing, but he was a mathematician not a scientist. I suppose, arguably you could call his contributions to morphogenesis as theoretical biology but I don't know it well enough to say. I think it is important to keep the distinctions between science and math clear because they require very different types of proof.
@13baldjj Tesla was also better than Edison in every way. He even discovered a way to transmit electricity wirelessly, but the electric companies wouldn't let him.
@13baldjj oh i know who he is and what he did, i think most people do.
i'm just saying that his LOUDEST fans tend to be quite crazy, and annoyingly numerous. Haven't you noticed?
Its such a unbelievable shame to kill this men!
4:44 Really? 101010101010...
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.
Having a keen interest in both science and homosexual rights I have always found the story of Turing's life poignant. Thank you for the video.
Werd!
They are way too stupid to be machines; they pass, case closed. :p
@ItsScienceBitch the Tories would gladly do it all over again, if given a voter mandate.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939.
Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.
The original Apple logo shows Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree, holding an apple. Steve Jobs also got the idea from the Beatles "Apple Corp" that they formed in England. So Apple Computers had everything to do with Isaac Newton and the Beatles, but nothing to do with Alan Turing the Fraud.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939.
Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939.
Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939.
Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939.
Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939.
Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.