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    during WWII that recruits mathematics alumnus Alan Turing to break Nazi code… cryptanalysts thought the code was unbreakable. Alan’s team analyzes Enigma messages, and Turing builds a machine to decipher them. His team succeeds and become heroes, but in the year 1952 Alan encounters disgrace when the authorities find out he is homosexual, and they send him to prison. The reason I want to research this paper is because I want find out who Alan Turing really was, and I want to find out if there were

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    Contributions to Digital Computing of Alan Turring Alan Turing was a dedicated mathematician who devoted his lives works to developing computer knowledge, as we know it today. Alan was born in London, England on June 23, 1912. Alan soon began to attend a local school and his interest in the science fields arose. His teachers an others would try and make him concentrate on other fields such as History an English but his craving for knowledge of mathematics drove him the opposite way. Turing’s

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    Morality, morals, standards, are they compatible in all times and societies. Will morality be similar in twenty years’ time or a hundred years? Interchangeable words or distinct words? Does Morality evolve over time or our perspectives of morality are modified over time. Societies establish are moral standard and corrupted by time, or have people infused morals into society? What is morality, is morality, what is normal or what we are taught? Humans are unstable and durable creatures, we are molded

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    question was originally asked by Alan Turing in 1930’s, before the time of the modern computer. Turing believed that a computer’s intelligence should be judged against a human’s intelligence by giving both the machine and an intelligent student the same set of random, rapid-fire, questions, and seeing how the computer copes. If the computer’s answers are measurable with a human’s intelligence, then we have determined that the machine can in fact think. This was deemed the Turing Test, and since then, there

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    Turing In Vietnam War

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    political talking point, without significant academic groundwork. Scientific biographers and historians have provided the first vital building blocks for others to shape Turing into a distinct cultural presence. However, truly original secondary material is still scarce. 1 Surprisingly few volumes have been dedicated solely to studying Turing alone, of which most date from 1992 onwards. This is perhaps due to the fact that accounts of him and his primary documentation remained partially classified and

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    The movie titled “The Imitation Game” directed by Morten Tyldum is based on the true story of Alan Mathison Turing. This particular movie was inspired by the biographical book, “Alan Turing: The Enigma” written by Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptanalysis, and a well known war hero. In 1952, he worked at Bletchley Park, Britain’s code breaking center, during the Second World War. Subsequently, he cracked the Enigma, which is an electro-mechanical rotor cipher machine that generates

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    The Enigma Code

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    Everyone has a passion, everyone has a purpose, but more importantly everyone has an impact. In the beginning of the 20th Century, there was a boy named Alan Turing who seemed like any other troublesome delinquent, but as he grew he became one of the most crucial tools for the British Military. Morten Tyldum directs, “The Imitation Game,” which is a piece of cinematography created to illustrate the period of time during WWII where the German use of the Enigma code, which is an encrypted form of

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    Technology as we know it has immensely improved throughout time and it is still getting better by the second. In 1950, a British mathematician, Alan Turing conducted a test to measure whether a computer could be described as intelligent. A human asks questions in Room 1 and gets both the human and the computer in Room 2 to answer them. If the human in Room 1 could not tell which response comes from the human and which came from the computer then the computer is seen as showing 'intelligence'. From

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    After viewing and studying Morten Tyldum's loosely based biopic of Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game", I have concluded that patriarchy was abundant during World War Two and it was most obvious throughout Joan Clarke's life. While analysing different critics opinions and views on Joan Clarke's role in the film, I found many supporting ideas and discovered that there was a lot of sexism during the time of the Enigma code. Through broad analysis I found that the chosen critic's opinions were supportive

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    Ex Machina Movie Analysis

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    pass a claimed variation of the Turing Test. I will argue that Ava passes the original Turing Test as well as Nathan’s claimed version of the Turing Test. I will first explain and elucidate the significance of the classical Turing Test and Nathan’s Test. Secondly, I will argue that Nathan’s “Turing Test” is not actually a version of the Turing Test but a significantly different test. Finally I will argue that Ava passes the classical Turing Test and Nathan’s Test. Alan Turing’s test attempts to answer

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