Alan Turing, Pioneer Computers Tragic Fared

The man is caught between the past and the future. Alan Turing is an expert on logic, mathematics, and computer science pioneer. He was born on June 23, 100 years ago. Turing's birth is celebrated as the day of the discovery of a computer. This man is responsible for finding the concept of "computing" and "algorithm" is used today.
Turing had prepared for the discoveries of modern life today. Beyond intellectual contributions, Turing made an end of life choices terrible.
In 1952, Turing considered a criminal for being a homosexual. Choice of same-sex lovers are considered as crimes by the British government at that time.
Turing was forced to female hormone therapy to "cure" diseases "interference" in violation of the law. This process is known as "chemical castration". This is an alternative sentence.
In less than two years, Turing committed suicide before the anniversary to-42. The book Men who Know Too Much: Alan Turing and the Computer by David Leavitt's discovery offers a poignant view of how homosexuality Turing became a factor in misery. The book also describes the intellectual and creative excellence.
Turing was writing a letter to his friend, Norman Routeledge before ending his life. In it, Turing's arrest linked to achievements in the syllogism.
"Turing believes machines think. Turing rely on him. For that, the machine can not think," wrote Turing as reported by the Brain pickings.
Turing's homosexuality makes worry those opposed to him and his ideas. This man was aware of homosexuality and faith in the intelligence of computers is considered as a threat to religious organizations.
Turing's insistence in questioning the exclusive claim to the ability to think humanity got a barrage of criticism in the 1940s. He also criticized the social norms that reject homosexual men and women to show their existence legally.
In 1936, Turing made Turing machine. This device manipulates symbols on a tape striped with some settings. Although it looks simple, this machine all the algorithms to adapt the logic of a computer simulation. This could explain the function of the CPU in the computer. Turing called it "a-machine" from vending machines.

 Turing machine, the initial concept of a computer algorithm
Turing machine is not intended for practical computing technology. This is a hypothesis that represents the computational engine. Turing machine to help computer scientists understand the limitations of mechanical computing.
Turing describes his experiments on a 1948 essay titled "Machine intelligence". Referring to the publication in 1936, Turing called Logical Computing Machine consists of a limited memory capacity is obtained in the form of recording is not limited and is marked in the square.
Each symbol can be printed. Every moment there is one symbol in the machine. This is called the symbol being scanned. This machine can change the symbol being scanned. Its performance is partly determined the symbol. However, the symbols on the tape elsewhere do not affect engine performance.
"The tape can be moved back and forth through the machine. It became one of the basic performance of the machine. Each band has a symbol of boundary markers at the ends," writes Turing. (Eh)
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