Yesterday were fulfilled 100 years of birth of the genius of logic and cryptography, theorist of computing and artificial intelligence, Alan Turing. He was born on June 23, 1912 and lived until June 7, 1954. To celebrate the event, some fans have built a Turing machine made with Lego pieces and which, as indicated in Microsiervos, can be seen in the Turings Erfenis exhibition. In the video you can see the use of LEGO sensors like the ones we used when we went to Cosmo Caixa to participate in Madrid Bricks.
The video explains, very quickly and with hardly any details, how the calculation model developed by Turing works. What this mathematician fascinates me is because when during the Second World War and while the Germans advanced and the Allies defended, from Bletchley Park, a military installation located in England very close to London, understood encrypted messages from the German army. And so the allies were able to anticipate many of the movements of the German soldiers. Turing and his team, using a machine called Bombe, understood what the Enigma encryption machine created. The machine they worked on was found by the English in 1942 in a sunken German submarine. It is an example of intelligence applied to war and with more spectacular results than those achieved by soldiers in full battle.
And also to celebrate it, yesterday Google gave its logo a playful and challenging character publishing a doodle of those that make everyone talk about Google. The doodle was made up of six challenges that the user had to solve using logic. The prize was to access the six letters that make up the word Google.
Returning to Turing and the things that are said about him, it seems that he was very clueless, probably because he would always be focused on his work that required a high capacity for abstraction, was an excellent athlete and followed the English principle of eating an apple a day as Mark the saying: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" (An apple a day keeps the doctor away).
