The Imitation Game: The Origin Of Alan Turing

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

The origin of Alan Turing is the first part of the Imitation game. Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June 1912, the second child of Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing. The peculiar name of Turing placed him in a disparate family tree of English elite, far from rich but intently upper-middle-class in the peculiar sense of the English class system. His father Julius had stepped into the Indian Civil Service, served the Madras Presidency, and had met and married

Ethel Sara Stoney. She was the daughter of the chief engineer of the Madras railways, an Anglo-

Irish family of relatively similar social status. Although conceited in British India, in the town of

Chatrapur, Alan Turing was born in a nursing home in

He was a very physical man as he ran marathons to near-Olympic standard and contended in cross-country events. He had ran from his house in Wilmslow to work at Manchester University, a 20 kilometre round trip. People who knew him during his Manchester days said how anomalously kind he was, polite and self- effacing. He didn 't often make direct eye contact, but when he did, people felt bathed in a very benignant, intrigued, witty and rather lovely personality. He was very axised and often figured to be in his own world, in his own line of thinking, in his own thought pattern and he would do some very bizarre things, but he was very open about them. He was a peculiar human being, a very kind soul, a very innocent, slightly rustic, but a very insistent determined, single-minded human being of aberrant talent and ability. The tragedy of his life is not only that it ended so early, but that he was agonized in a time of dogmatism for his sexuality.

After his ceaseless effort and researches, he proposed Turing Machine and this occupies third part of his biography. Turing worked in seclusion from the significant school of

In this paper, Turing made a bridge between the logical and the physical worlds, thought and action, which crossed customary boundaries. His work proposed a concept of galactic practical denotation: the idea of the Universal Turing Machine.

The concept of the Turing machine has become the origin of the modern theory of computation and computability.

Upon British declaration of war on 3 September, Turing worked whole heartedly at the wartime cryptanalytic headquarters, Bletchley Park. Germans were using the Enigma whereas no one was aware about the methodology. Happy to work alone on a problem that defeated others,

Turing dafted the system at the end of 1939, but it required the procure of further material by the Navy, and the elaboration of worldly statistical processes.

In 1944, Alan Turing was almost separately in possession of three key ideas: his 1936 generality of the universal machine; the unvoiced speed and solidness of electronic technology; the inefficiency in designing different machines for different logical processes. These ideas when combined provided the principle, the practical means, and the motivation for the modern computer, a single machine sufficient of handling any programmed task. He was as