The imitation Game

          Alan Mathison Turning was many things such as a mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. He was never fully recognized for having introduced to us theoretical computer science and artificial-intelligence because of his homosexuality which was a crime in the UK at the time. He also played a crucial role in the breaking of intercepted codes from the Germans which helped win crucial battles against the Nazis. When the war was over he went over to work at the National Physical Laboratory where he designed ACE one of the first computer programs. He went on to work at the Computing Machine Laboratory in the Victoria University of Manchester where he created the Manchester computers.
        Even with all of these amazing and never before done accomplishments, Alan was still prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. Instead of jail, he choose chemical castration treatment which would reduce sexual activity. Turning died from cyanide poisoning, it was considered as suicide but the evidence proved otherwise. It could have possibly been accidental poisoning. 
          Turning was playing an imitation game where he accepted the fact that people had to see him another way than what he really was. He was close to marrying Joan Clarke who he worked with at the cryptography team. He wasn't able to go through the wedding revealing to her that he was gay. They still remained friendly and worked together to break the Herman Machine also referred to as the Egima. His success with creating a machine that would break a code every day was seen as the main reason of the British victory. 
        He was able to save a lot of lives but no one ever knew the truth behind that because it was all kept a secret. He was later prosecuted by the same government and the same people that he had worked with and helped. The movie "The Imitation Game" was meant to tell his story. 



The Imitation Game