I really don't understand why they did it to him. He helped crack the enigma code, providing an unquantifiable advantage to the allies.
Were they just that bigoted?
Last May I was following lectures for my Computability Theory course, and at some point the professor just started ranting about how mistreated Alan Turing was even though he achieved such great things.
[QUOTE=zombojoe;38825305]I really don't understand why they did it to him. He helped crack the enigma code, providing an unquantifiable advantage to the allies.
Were they just that bigoted?[/QUOTE]
Yes.
Alan Turing cracked the enigma code, then made a mathematic model of a computer that all computers to this day abide by (then implemented the model of a computer inside the model itself), then used that to prove there are problems a computer can't solve.
[QUOTE=Virtanen;38826845]Yes.[/QUOTE]
It's incredibly how homosexuality was similarly treated to McCarthyism era anti-communism just a few decades ago.
[QUOTE=Jookia;38826891]Alan Turing cracked the enigma code, then made a mathematic model of a computer that all computers to this day abide by (then implemented the model of a computer inside the model itself), then used that to prove there are problems a computer can't solve.[/QUOTE]
Nondeterministic polynomials :'(
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