Alan Turing
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[From film review]
But his lifelong passion would become multiple-use computing machines, which would eventually become known as Turing machines — and the predecessors of the modern day computer. “His work was asking all the big questions,” says Moore. “He was as much a philosopher as he was a mathematician. What does it mean to be a human being? What does it mean to be alive? Why do we consider one thing alive and another thing not alive?”
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Turing constructed a machine that would break the code every day. His success was hailed as one of the main reasons for Britain’s victory.
“Churchill said that Turing had the single most important achievement of anyone during the war,” says “Imitation Game” director Morten Tyldum. “It saved millions of lives. And it was all kept secret. He was never thanked or recognized for it. And he was later prosecuted by the same government, the same people.”
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