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    appropriate? How or more so who decides what is appropriate? These questions have been asked, debated, and fought over since the dawn of civilization. The rhetor of the movie The Imitation Game integrates these questions into the true story of Alan Turing and the people around him. The rhetor allows these questions of appropriateness to be narrowed down to two very influential people in history to give these large, foundational questions a more personal touch, and for the audience to see the very

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    Alan Turing, the Father of Modern Computing Alan Turing, known for creating the Turing Test and most well known as the father of computer science, was a mathematician, computer scientist(Concise), physicist, neurologist, chemist, and biologist who lived in the early twentieth century(Energy). Although only living from 1912 to 1954, he was hardworking and determined which led to many accomplishments. This hardworking and determined attitude stemmed from the death of his friend Christopher Morcom

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    by Graham Moore, depicts the life of the unusual man Alan Turing and his involvement with Allied victory during World War II. The biopic ranging at two hours follows Turing and the sacrifices he willing to make to break Germany’s unbreakable Enigma code during World War II. Turing along with a group of unknown British scholars work desperately day and night under pressure to achieve this victory which ultimately ends in a tragedy. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, but he lived with the

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    Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician and computer scientist, famous for cracking the code the Nazi machine “Enigma” had used. This code was considered by many to have been undecipherable. Turing was born in Maida Vale, London on 23 June 1912. His father was part of a family of merchants from Scotland, and his mother was the daughter of an engineer.At a young age, he displayed signs of particularly high intelligence. Turing was one of the people who worked on the first computers. He was

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    Alan Mathison Turing was a gay mathematician during World War II whose work is estimated to have shortened the war by two years and saved an estimated 14 to 21 Million lives. He is considered the father of modern computing due to his contributions to the area of study. There is an award as well as a Law and may buildings and statues in his honor. The man was a genius but was lost too soon due to his suicide whilst doing a procedure known as “Chemical Castration” to eliminate his libido due to homosexuality

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    crazy and incredible one; however, in the case of Alan Turing it appears to be true. Due to the nature of his work during World War II people are only just know learning how vital this man truly was not just to winning the war, but to creating the technology we use every day. During the war, Turing worked at Bletchley Park which housed the code breakers who helped decipher intelligence communication to help the Allies defeat Nazi Germany. Turing was invaluable to Bletchley as his work dealt with

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    The Beginning Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in London, England to Parent Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing. Alan Turing was the second and last child of Ethel and Julius. The Turing family was part of the upper middle class; Julius Mathison was a part of the Indian Civil Service serving in the Madras Presidency. Ethel Sara Turing was the daughter of the chief engineer of the Madras railway. Alan and his older brother were fostered in many English homes before their father

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    ~Alan Turing~ By: Matthew Medrano Alan Turing was born in June 23, 1912, Maida Vale. He later died in Wilmslow, United Kingdom, in June 7, 1954. On 8 June 1954, Turing's housekeeper found him dead. He had died the previous day. His full name is Alan Mathison Turing. A post-mortem examination established that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined that he had committed suicide, and he was cremated at Woking Crematorium on 12 June 1954. In 1941, Turing proposed marriage

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    on the 23rd of june,a child who was named Alan Mathison Turing was born to Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing. His Father was involved in the Indian Civil service and served under the Madras Presidency, where he met and married Alan's mother, Ethel Sara Stoney. Alan was given birth to in a nursing home Paddington, London. Alan Turing showed signs of high intelligence at a very young age. Most teachers knew this, but no one really respected this. Alan did not do very well during his early school

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    Alan Turing is a rare figure amongst the many historical worthies of post-war Britain. He would, at first, seem an unlikely candidate to become a popular, globally recognised icon. He worked within a comparatively novel and arcane scientific field, the central concepts of which are still only fully understood by specialists. It was one which emerged from mostly from his own high-level theoretical reasoning and debating the earlier work of (the similarly obscure) Kurt Gödel upon whether mathematical

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