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Until you find that book, here’s something to get you started.
In broad strokes: Alan Turing, early #computer wiz, “helped fight Nazis with his big #gay brain” by building a computer to crack their codes during WWII, got busted for being #Queer in the 1950’s (and they seriously effed him up), then he was pardoned posthumously just about a decade ago.
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an interesting connection:
it was #LordByron who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace
her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI
she rejected it
her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-#scienceFiction champion of AI, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique
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NIST · Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer Who Predicted Artificial IntelligenceDuring Women’s History Month, I am remembering Ada Lovelace’s contributions and thinking about the impact she had on me as a scientist and mathematician
#FBPE #RejoinEU Alan Turing stood for truth. Labour’s welfare cuts stand for… what exactly? 
#AlanTuring #Labour #WelfareCuts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/12/wednesday-briefing-will-kyivs-commitment-to-a-ceasefire-appease-trump-and-pressure-putin
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/08/a-very-camp-environment-why-alan-turing-fatefully-told-police-he-was-gay
The Guardian · Wednesday briefing: Will Kyiv’s commitment to a ceasefire appease Trump – and pressure Putin?
Dem britischen Mathematiker Alan Turing gelingt 1940 ein großer Coup: Endlich funktioniert die von ihm konzipierte „Bombe“, die den Nazis das Handwerk legen soll – und wird. Allerdings nicht durch ihre Sprengkraft im wörtlichen Sinne.
#AlanTuring #Enigma #Kryptographie #SpektrumDerWissenschaft #ZweiterWeltkrieg #GeschichtenAusDerMathematik
"In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many sheets in Turing’s own handwriting, telling of his top-secret “Delilah” engineering project from 1943 to 1945. Delilah was Turing’s portable voice-encryption system, named after the biblical deceiver of men."
IEEE Spectrum · The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project
Nobody needs OpenAI anymore, just as they were starting to charge for their hustle...
Die u.a. von #AlanTuring gebrochene dt. Chiffriermaschine #Enigma wurde nach dem 2. Weltkrieg von Großbritannien an verbündete Staaten verschenkt. Die Tatsache, dass man die Nachrichten mitlesen konnte wurde Jahrzehnte geheim gehalten.
Today in Labor History November 27, 1835: James Pratt and John Smith were hanged in London, the last two people to be executed for sodomy in England. William Bonill, whose room it was, was transported to Australia as an accessory to the crime, where he died. They were convicted entirely on the testimony of the landlord, who had been spying on them through the keyhole. In 2017, they were posthumously pardoned under the Alan Turing Law, an amnesty law that pardoned British men who had previously been convicted of sodomy. The law was named for mathematician, cryptologist and computer scientist Alan Turing. Home Secretary, Lord Russell, argued for a commutation of the death sentences, stating: “It is the only crime where there is no injury done to any individual and in consequence it requires a very small expense to commit it in so private a manner and to take such precautions as shall render conviction impossible. It is also the only capital crime that is committed by rich men but owing to the circumstances I have mentioned they are never convicted.”
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not only was #lovelace the world's first #programmer, she was also the first #AI detractor
and i know that because the first non-#sciencefiction proponent of AI, #alanturing, cited her in his defense of/ argument for AI
#turing framed the foundational thoughts of the entire field of AI, as an argument against ada's thoughts
and she lived many decades before turing!
#adalovelace was an amazing woman
she deserves her own hollywood movie
BBC NewsA Point of View: Will machines ever be able to think?The pursuit of "machine intelligence" has long interested computer scientists, but will machines ever think for themselves, ask Lisa Jardine.
»One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning!"«
Alan #Turing, 1951
#AlanTuring #Computer #History #AI
This is awesome. An actual working Turing Machine made out of LEGO.
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7
ideas.lego.comTuring Machine – Working Lego ComputerWhat is a Turing machine?It's an abstract model of an algorithmic machine. Although it was not designed to be implemented in real life, some people ...
The British government has placed an export ban on a small collection of unpublished papers belonging to Alan Turing, the mathematician and computer scientist famous for helping the Allies decode Nazi communications during World War II.
@SmithsonianMag #code #codebreakers #AlanTuring
The Imitation Game - Ein streng geheimes Leben
18.08.24, 20:15 - 22:05, Arte
https://www.primeguide.tv/broadcastdetail.html?slot=738468708990976
Prime GuideThe Imitation Game - Ein streng geheimes Leben20:15 - 22:05 18.08.2024, Arte
I didn’t know that #AlanTuring studied #spots and #stripes in #animals and had a #theory for such #patterns 
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“Spots, Stripes And More: Working Out The Logic Of Animal Patterns”, Knowable (https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/animal-patterns-spots-stripes-explained-turing-mechanism).
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsSpots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patternsMore than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model — and adding new twists — to gain a deeper understanding of animal markings.
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@QuirkyFilms Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game” (2014)!
1950 überlegte #AlanTuring, ob Maschinen denken könnten. Was #Denken ist, darüber streiten sich die Geister schon Jahrhunderte. Also griff #Turing zu einem Trick:
Ein Mensch sollte schriftlich mit zwei anderen Personen kommunizieren, die in einem anderen Raum seien (
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), und herausfinden, wer wer sei. Eine davon würde aber versuchen, ihn zu verwirren.
Wenn ein Computer die Rolle einer Personen einnimmt, und die Erkennungsrate gleich bleibt, könne dieser «denken».
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https://dnip.ch/2024/07/18/was-der-turing-test-fuer-die-gesellschaft-bedeutet/
Das Netz ist politisch · Was der Turing-Test für die Gesellschaft bedeutet - Das Netz ist politischVor einem knappen Jahrhundert hat sich Alan Turing mit den Fundamenten der heutigen Informatik beschäftigt: Kryptographie, Komplexität/Rechenaufwand, aber
