Re: Alan Turing: the short, brilliant life and tragic death of an enigma

Glenn...

You should not be so surprised: Mick Jagger also co-produced and financed the 2001 motion picture Enigma..! 

David H.

At 11:01 06/21/2012, Glenn Geers wrote:
>I'm seriously impressed by Mick Jagger's generosity. I would never have believed that he would own an Enigma Machine. 
>
>Hat's off! Sir Mick!
>
>Cheers 
>
>Glenn Geers
>Technology Director, ITL
>NICTA
>
>
>On 21/06/2012, at 22:00, Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Wednesday 20 June 2012 17.48 BST
>> 
>> Alan Turing: the short, brilliant life and tragic death of an enigma
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>> Codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing's legacy comes to life in a 
>> Science Museum exhibition
>> 
>>    Maev Kennedy
>> 
>> A German Enigma coding machine on loan from Mick Jagger and a 1950 
>> computer with less calculating power than a smartphone but which was once 
>> the fastest in the world, are among the star objects in a new exhibition 
>> at the Science Museum devoted to the short, brilliant life and tragic 
>> death of the scientist Alan Turing.
>> 
>> "We are in geek heaven," his nephew Sir John Turing said, surrounded by 
>> pieces of computing history which are sacred relics to Turing's admirers, 
>> including a computer-controlled tortoise that had enchanted the scientist 
>> when he saw it at the museum in the 1951 Festival of Britain. "This 
>> exhibition is a great tribute to a very remarkable man," Turing said.
>> 
>> "My father was in awe of him, the word genius was often used in speaking 
>> of him in the family," he said, "but he also spoke of his eccentricity, of 
>> how he cycled to work at Bletchley wearing a gas mask to control his 
>> hayfever so the local people he passed dreaded that a gas attack was 
>> imminent."
>> 
>> The exhibition, marking the centenary of Turing's birth, tackles both the 
>> traumatic personal life and the brilliant science of the man who was a key 
>> member of the codebreaking team at Bletchley Park, and devised the Turing 
>> Test which is still the measure of artificial intelligence..../snip/
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/20/alan-turing-science-museum-exhibition
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>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/jun/20/codebreaker-alan-turing-science-museum-video
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>> http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx
>> 
>> 
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