The Turing Guide
22 | 2 THE mAN wITH THE TERRIBlE TROUSERS War. It is unlikely that poor dress sense was a positive indicator for recruitment, bu ...
SIR JOHN DERmOT TURING | 23 his own role. It is well known that the Bletchley Park employees were sworn to secrecy about their w ...
24 | 2 THE mAN wITH THE TERRIBlE TROUSERS and his wearing a pyjama jacket under his sports coat. My grandmother was still forlor ...
SIR JOHN DERmOT TURING | 25 My grandmother died in 1976, at the age of 93, but at that time there was little public under- stand ...
26 | 2 THE mAN wITH THE TERRIBlE TROUSERS Breathless and heady stuff, and controversial. Alan had jumped in with both feet: Mr T ...
SIR JOHN DERmOT TURING | 27 up in all sorts of ways. Like John, I am a lawyer by profession, and there is a legal aspect to Alan ...
28 | 2 THE mAN wITH THE TERRIBlE TROUSERS home—to use an anachronism, it was something that his mother would not be able to comp ...
SIR JOHN DERmOT TURING | 29 Consider one further example. Perhaps, outside academic circles, the least known of Alan’s studies a ...
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CHAPTER 3 Meeting a genius peter hilton I had the good fortune to work closely with Alan Turing and to know him well for the las ...
32 | 3 mEETING A GENIUS team that Churchill was able to describe our work as ‘my secret weapon’. Turing could never have said—as ...
H IlTO N | 33 tragic irony that the British security services should have been mobilized to exclude Turing— whose contribution t ...
34 | 3 mEETING A GENIUS Turing argued as follows: ‘I can imagine no set of circumstances under which it would be to my advantage ...
CHAPTER 4 Crime and punishment jack copeland I n 1952 Turing was arrested and tried for being gay. The court convicted him and s ...
36 | 4 CRImE AND PUNISHmENT ‘Ronald’ is an anagram of ‘Arnold’, and it was in December 1951 that Turing first met Arnold Murray, ...
COPElAND | 37 The judge followed the barrister’s lead, sentencing Turing to 12 months’ probation and order- ing him to ‘submit f ...
38 | 4 CRImE AND PUNISHmENT The movie The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, had a scene show- ing Turing, ...
COPElAND | 39 If Turing was suffering from life-threatening depression following the months of hormones, there is no evidence of ...
40 | 4 CRImE AND PUNISHmENT Another of Turing’s wartime friends, Peter Hilton (the author of Chapter 3), was employed in the mat ...
PART II The universal machine and beyond ...
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