Alan Turing Bombing
Dr. Turing was a mathematician and logician. During his lifetime, he was an innovator in the fields of cryptanalysis, logic, mathematics, and philosophy. The legacy of his work continued in the areas of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI)–a term not invented until a few years after his death. Unfortunately, he was not recognized for his accomplishments and inventions until after well after his death.
Alan Turing studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge and graduated in 1934 and completed is Ph.D. at Princeton University in mathematical logic in 1938. He returned to the UK in 1938 to a fellowship at King’s College. In 1937, Dr. Turing’s paper, On Computable Numbers: with an Application to the Entscheidungproblem, which …show more content…
Turing for his expertise in logic, mathematics, and code breaking. Specifically, they were looking for someone to decrypt the messages of the Enigma machine that the Nazi were using to encrypt military communications. He joined the Government Code and Cypher School in 1939 at the start of World War II. He invented the Turing Bombe (called ‘Bombe’ at the time of its invention). The idea of a Bombe was not new as the Polish had produce a Bomba machine prior to Dr. Turing. What made the Turing Bombe different was that he used the logic of how the Enigma functioned to eliminate the need for the machine to go through billions of possible settings by trying to decipher everything, the machine would only decipher the settings that made sense.
Another one of Dr. Turing professional developments was the Turing test. He used the game of chess to show that a computer could be viewed as an artificial brain. He began his work in a time when computing machines were not capable of performing complex calculations and people that worked on computing machines were called computers. The beginning of his Turing test were on paper and he would play chess using a printed version of his code. Dr. Turing’s program–Turbochamp–was capable of playing a human in chess, but not winning. Dr. Turing died before he could see his programming completed on a
Alan Turing studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge and graduated in 1934 and completed is Ph.D. at Princeton University in mathematical logic in 1938. He returned to the UK in 1938 to a fellowship at King’s College. In 1937, Dr. Turing’s paper, On Computable Numbers: with an Application to the Entscheidungproblem, which …show more content…
Turing for his expertise in logic, mathematics, and code breaking. Specifically, they were looking for someone to decrypt the messages of the Enigma machine that the Nazi were using to encrypt military communications. He joined the Government Code and Cypher School in 1939 at the start of World War II. He invented the Turing Bombe (called ‘Bombe’ at the time of its invention). The idea of a Bombe was not new as the Polish had produce a Bomba machine prior to Dr. Turing. What made the Turing Bombe different was that he used the logic of how the Enigma functioned to eliminate the need for the machine to go through billions of possible settings by trying to decipher everything, the machine would only decipher the settings that made sense.
Another one of Dr. Turing professional developments was the Turing test. He used the game of chess to show that a computer could be viewed as an artificial brain. He began his work in a time when computing machines were not capable of performing complex calculations and people that worked on computing machines were called computers. The beginning of his Turing test were on paper and he would play chess using a printed version of his code. Dr. Turing’s program–Turbochamp–was capable of playing a human in chess, but not winning. Dr. Turing died before he could see his programming completed on a