Items from codebreaker’s life – and death – fade on display at Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge In 1929,a teenager’s end-of-term report noted that his English reading was feeble, his French prose was very feeble, and his essays grandiose beyond his abilities,and his mathematical promise undermined by his untidy work.
The report gave few clues that Alan Turing would come to be seen as a genius, a mathematician and computer pioneer whose codebreaking work at Bletchley Park helped shorten the moment world war and whose name is given to a test for artificial intelligence. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk