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    he created the first programing language. Not only did he contribute to computer science, but also in biology, chemistry, physics, and especially mathematics. He has countless number of achievements including his contribution of cracking the Nazi enigma code, which seemed at that time, “unbreakable”. Now lets dive into the life of Alan. Now where is better to start than his early life. Alan was born into a wealthy family. He was born on the June of 25, 1912 in

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    house of representatives are working to keep peace within our nation. In 1939, September 1, World War II. broke out. One of the advantages we had were groups of women decoding Nazi messages. They did this through using a machine called the Enigma. The Enigma machine was developed

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    attempting to decode the Enigma Machine. The Enigma Machine was an encoding machine used by the Germans during World War II. The Enigma Machine relied on a set of rotating wheels that encrypted each letter of the alphabet as a different one; the total number of keys to the Enigma Code was 150 quintillion. To make the Enigma machine even harder to decode, the setting changed every night at midnight. Before World War II the Polish succeeded in reconstructing the internal wiring of an enigma Machine and a group

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    The Imitation Game The film, “The Imitation Game”, follows the life of Alan Turing, a homosexual mathematician, who became a war hero after breaking Enigma, an encryption device that the Germans used for communication purposes during World War II. Decoding Enigma had a major effect on World War II. In 1939, Alan Turing, and four other code breakers, Joan Clarke, Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, and Peter Hilton were employed by the British military as cryptographers to decipher the secret messages

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    the most famous encrypting machines was named the Enigma. The Enigma was a machine that took input from one side; encrypts it and sends the message to another operator who then translates it using a code book (Gladwin). Using this machine, the German’s kept nearly all the information secure from other countries. To break these encryptions, the British secret service along with many other countries started to build machines that could defeat the Enigmas encryption (Gladwin). Soon after the Germans

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    During the film, there is a group of men and a woman trying to solve the puzzle of ‘Enigma,’ an unbreakable secret code behind the Nazis' communications machine. This group is where the loyalties lie. One of the biggest loyalties lies between Alan Turing, the main character, and Joan Clark. The inclusion of Joan Clark changes the team

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    "The Imitation Game" by Morten Tyldum, is a handsomely engrossing and poignantly melancholic thriller about code-cracking World War Two thrills. Alan Turing successfully attempts to break the enigma code which leads to 14 million lives being saved and the war being shortened by 2 years. Conflict is all over this film emotionally and physically, externally and internally, especially in the protagonist's case, Alan Turing, who isn't exactly a straight forward character. As humans we generally feel

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    (Cryptology in WWII) The Enigma machine, the device that the German’s used to encode their radio messages, was produced commercially beginning in the early 1920s. (Britannica) The Polish Cipher Bureau had the earliest success in breaking the German Enigma code. From 1932–33 Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski deduced the pattern of wiring inside the three rotating wheels of the Enigma machine. He was helped by photographs, received from the French secret service, showing pages of an Enigma operating manual

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    A Biography of Alan Turing, with Mathematics. From the middle name one may suspect a certain class value,although the "Math" bit is a strange coincidence. His father went to Oxford and then worked for the Indian Civil Service. His mother's father also worked in India. He was born in 1912, their second son. 1926 his father retired so perhaps he had something of normal family life from then on. Went to Sherborne, one of older public schools. Whilst there he became a close friend of Christopher

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    Alan Turing Psychology

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    properly socialize with people or how to work in a group like he was supposed to working for Bletchley trying to solve the Enigma coding

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