Accomplishments Of Alan Turing

You could see him on the street: an ordinary man, but what he hid behind his coat were his accomplishments that would make an impact so big on the world that you would of wished you said hello. This was Alan Turing. He was an ordinary man who made tremendous accomplishments during his lifetime that contributed towards computer science. He has been interested in science ever since he was young, which influenced him throughout his life. His incredible thinking during World War II led to his success in the computer science world. When he ended his life, he wouldn’t have expected the reaction the world had to his machine and what his machine led to. Alan Turing’s short term plan to decrypt enigma, remodeled the idea of what a computer can do, and
One of his first machines was the Automatic Computing Machine (ACE). He was enlisted to the National Physical Laboratory in London to design and progress the electric computer . “It was the first relatively complete specification of an electric stored-program general-purpose digital computer” The machine had less memory than Alan had originally intended . Although they were close, the NPL lost the race to build the world’s first working digital computer that also had a stored program . Another machine of Alan’s was called The Turing Machine. It was a simple computer. This machine was different then the ACE. The concept of the machine was amazing. “A device that could perform almost any mathematical task and duplicate the work of any other machine, including the human brain” This machine consisted of limitless memory . Alan believed this machine could do anything. At the time, most of the computers that were built were designed for one specific task. The idea of the machine is that it could adapt to many tasks . You can see the basis of this machine in modern
At the time homosexual acts were criminal offenses in the UK. The crime Alan committed was “Gross Indeceny contrary to Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885” . During the trial Alan made no serious denial or defense of his sexual relationship with a young man . His punishment was wither to go to prison or get injections of estrogen for a year. The estrogen was intended to neutralize his libido. He chose the estrogen injections because he did not want to stop his work. Alan tried to make this whole case not affect his work. His work was the most important to him.
Alan died June 7th 1954 because of potassium cyanide poisoning. The cyanide poisoning was found on a half eaten apple, which was beside him. It was decided that he committed suicide but no other motive was discovered. The idea of this being an accident was told to his mother, it was all she ever knew and thought. What she didn’t know was how the impact of Alan’s work was going to have on the