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Alan Turing Final
Alan Turing Final
Alan Turing Final
Alan Turing
Category:
Mathematics and Technology
Biography:
I was born on June 23, 1912 in London. I lived with my relatives in England while my parents lived and worked in India. I studied mathematics at Cambridge University and subsequently taught there, specializing in quantum mechanics. It was there at Cambridge that I developed proof which states that an automatic computation cannot solve all mathematical problems. In 1938 I began working secretly part time for the British cryptanalytic department. I worked full time with the department following the outbreak of World War 2. I played a vital role in the development of a machine that could decipher the German Enigma code for the British. After the war I turned my thoughts to the idea of building a machine that would logically process information. My plans were dismissed by my colleagues and the lab lost the chance of being the one of the first to design a digital computer. I committed suicide on 7th June, 1954
Evidence:
I think that I deserve the title of greatest change maker because I am considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence by The Independent. This shows that I hold a very important title to my name. The historian Asa Briggs comments on my contribution in World War 2 to the cracking of the German Enigma code: You needed exceptional talent, you needed genius at Bletchley and Turing's was that genius.
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The Sunday Times call me 'The outcast who gave us the modern world'. The sentence is stating that I was a unique person who gave us a new way of processing information for use in the modern economy and society. "It is easy to imagine, in a parallel world, an older Turing, flamboyant, confident, a television star and perhaps the founder of a British Google or Apple" (Michael Hanlon). The reason they call me an outcast is because I was gay but I made many modern day inventions that have changed the world.
IB Learner Profiles:
1. My first IB Learner Profile is that I am a thinker. I am a thinker because I think in and
out of the box to be able to have created my machines. It is also because I thought differently and correctly.
2. I am also an inquirer because I went further and deeper in to my studies even after
World War 2. I wanted to try something new, something different something unthought of.
3. My third Learner Profile is that I am a Risk-Taker because I went out into the
unknown to discover and invent something when my colleagues abandoned me. I took the risk of failing and putting a dent in my name.
Bibliography:
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Grabianowski, Ed. "HowStuffWorks "10 Inventions That Changed the World"." HowStuffWorks "Science". N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/10-inventions-thatchanged-the-world.htm#page=9>. "Turing100: AlanTuring." Turing100. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Dec. 2012. <http://turing100.blogspot.com/search/label/AlanTuring>. "Turing100: Sunday Times Alan Turing article: 'The outcast who gave us the modern world'." Turing100. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Dec. 2012. <http://turing100.blogspot.com/2011/11/sunday-times-alan-turing-article.html>. "iuhi." lnkijl. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2012. <upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Alan_Turing_photo.jpg>.