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    The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, which is based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. It is about the code breaking program by the British during World War II, which helped Britain to break encoded Enigma messages from the Germans. Alan Turning, the main character, is a homosexual mathematician that is in charge of the project and is portrayed as a selfish genius that builds the code breaking machine

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    during WWII that recruits mathematics alumnus Alan Turing to break Nazi code… cryptanalysts thought the code was unbreakable. Alan’s team analyzes Enigma messages, and Turing builds a machine to decipher them. His team succeeds and become heroes, but in the year 1952 Alan encounters disgrace when the authorities find out he is homosexual, and they send him to prison. The reason I want to research this paper is because I want find out who Alan Turing really was, and I want to find out if there were

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    Contributions to Digital Computing of Alan Turring Alan Turing was a dedicated mathematician who devoted his lives works to developing computer knowledge, as we know it today. Alan was born in London, England on June 23, 1912. Alan soon began to attend a local school and his interest in the science fields arose. His teachers an others would try and make him concentrate on other fields such as History an English but his craving for knowledge of mathematics drove him the opposite way. Turing’s

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    Ralphie’s secrete message , from The Christmas Story, that he received from the Ovaltine decoder pin looked challenging and difficult at first but soon was able to decode the very important message. However, if his message from Little Orphan Annie was coded with the Enigma machine it may have been more puzzling for Ralphie just like it was for the rest of the world.The Enigma machine was a complex machine that was used by the Nazis during World War II to send secret messages. This machine consists

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    Morality, morals, standards, are they compatible in all times and societies. Will morality be similar in twenty years’ time or a hundred years? Interchangeable words or distinct words? Does Morality evolve over time or our perspectives of morality are modified over time. Societies establish are moral standard and corrupted by time, or have people infused morals into society? What is morality, is morality, what is normal or what we are taught? Humans are unstable and durable creatures, we are molded

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    The movie titled “The Imitation Game” directed by Morten Tyldum is based on the true story of Alan Mathison Turing. This particular movie was inspired by the biographical book, “Alan Turing: The Enigma” written by Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptanalysis, and a well known war hero. In 1952, he worked at Bletchley Park, Britain’s code breaking center, during the Second World War. Subsequently, he cracked the Enigma, which is an electro-mechanical rotor cipher machine that generates

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    The Enigma Code

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    Everyone has a passion, everyone has a purpose, but more importantly everyone has an impact. In the beginning of the 20th Century, there was a boy named Alan Turing who seemed like any other troublesome delinquent, but as he grew he became one of the most crucial tools for the British Military. Morten Tyldum directs, “The Imitation Game,” which is a piece of cinematography created to illustrate the period of time during WWII where the German use of the Enigma code, which is an encrypted form of

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    Strong AI is used to describe a certain mindset of artificial intelligence (AI) development. As oppose to Weak AI, those who support Strong AI believe that a computer and the brain have equivalent computing power. Their goal is to develop artificial intelligence to a point where a machine’s intellectual capability is equal to a humans. They believe that a computer program is able to act just like the human brain in every possible way. For example, just like the brain, a computer should be able to

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    Turing In Vietnam War

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    political talking point, without significant academic groundwork. Scientific biographers and historians have provided the first vital building blocks for others to shape Turing into a distinct cultural presence. However, truly original secondary material is still scarce. 1 Surprisingly few volumes have been dedicated solely to studying Turing alone, of which most date from 1992 onwards. This is perhaps due to the fact that accounts of him and his primary documentation remained partially classified and

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    question was originally asked by Alan Turing in 1930’s, before the time of the modern computer. Turing believed that a computer’s intelligence should be judged against a human’s intelligence by giving both the machine and an intelligent student the same set of random, rapid-fire, questions, and seeing how the computer copes. If the computer’s answers are measurable with a human’s intelligence, then we have determined that the machine can in fact think. This was deemed the Turing Test, and since then, there

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