Introduction
to Alan Turing:
This
is the name that doesn't need any introduction. Alan Turing is a Legend, the
legendary father of modern calculative mechanism. Every time I shut on my
computer and words suddenly starts to rolling in my head are John Von Neumann,
Charles Babbage, Blaise Pascal and the name of father of modern computer era, none
other than Alan Turing.
We
can talk about many authors so why only Alan Turing then? Answer is simple that
he was the only one whose absolute genius was neglected by British Empire at
that time like Galileo Galilee, Copernicus and many more extra ordinary persons
of the past but let’s get started with this historic tale.
Alan Turing was born on 23 June, 1912, in London. His
father was in the Indian Civil Service and Turing's parents lived in India
until his father's retirement in 1926. No one knows that this boy with
sheer will, strong commitment & full of optimism, will one day give this a
world an superior thing that would compete with human brain and help human kind
at the same time. From very beginning of
childhood his best friend (I wouldn't discuss about any of his relationship as
it is related to his personal life and I only want to discuss about his unparalleled work and growth of his passion. ) introduced him with the world of ciphers,
signs and codes. His vision was somewhat different to the other people which
depicted him extra ordinary as we know odd one out always is the different doer
well in this case he was the odd one out. He always been thinking that why
people find it hard to decipher the encrypt while it is just a language for
communication like everyone communicate in their respective languages. So he
made this puzzle his whole life. He always emphasized that brilliance of one’s
always rely on one’s wit and logical problem solving capability though he wasn't unaware of emotional feelings, it was just a matter of time.
In 1936, Turing went to Princeton University in America,
returning to England in 1938. He began to work secretly part-time for the
British cryptanalytic department, the Government Code and Cypher School. On the
outbreak of war he took up full-time work at its headquarters, Bletchley Park. Alan Turing's wartime life was spent mainly in the Huts
erected in the grounds of Bletchley Park, where the technical work of code
breaking was done.
Enigma was the real riddle that made Alan Turing who he was,
but many including me believe that Alan was a science nerd & annoying
genius to everyone with very little work and Enigma wasn’t the reason who he
was. Enigma was the reason what he was, after Enigma’s incident he wasn’t the
genius but became an art work piece, a legend, a master of sheer brilliant and
uber thinking of next generation.
After the war, Turing turned his thoughts to the development
of a machine that would logically process information. He worked first for the
National Physical Laboratory (1945-1948). His plans were dismissed by his
colleagues and the lab lost out on being the first to design a digital
computer. It is thought that Turing's blueprint would have secured them the
honor, as his machine was capable of computation speeds higher than the
others. In 1949, he went to Manchester University where he directed the
computing laboratory and developed a body of work that helped to form the basis
for the field of artificial intelligence. Yes!! that artificial intelligence
which is not yet created but I am thinking what could been accomplished if
Turing still be alive but maybe I am wrong, he might be alive...
I keep it short and straight, people like Alan Turing born
once in millennium. They surely are different but better than us. Sometimes due
to some faux pas they couldn't give us whole what makes us better. Alan Turing
will never die in fact he is in every home today with us on our desk, on our
lap, in our pocket now whether you say it technology or a part of his thinking
and brain. Alan Turing will stay alive among us and he will grow always until
the end of this earth. Like all the other Legends he made room for him among
memorable people above all of us, all trivial thinking of society. This. I am righting
to express the respect and greetings to him for what he gave to us, as a technocrat, what he does inspires me more and to look into how can we contribute and
fulfill his dream to make this world a better place above all rusty thinking for
the sake of humanity and us.
THANK YOU ALAN!
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(Famous Theory Of Turing)
(Extra Ordinary Thinking about ordinary things)
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