At the 2015 Oscars ceremony, "The Imitation Game" starring Juan Fu won eight nominations, and finally won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award. Prior to this, the film also won nine nominations for the British Academy of Film Awards, the Golden Globe Award Five nominations, etc., and won the 2014 American Film Institute Award. As a low-cost commercial film with an investment of only 15 million U.S. dollars, the imitation game has won a global box office of 233 million U.S. dollars, which can be described as an art box office double harvest.
The prototype of the male protagonist in this movie is Alan Turing, a British mathematician named as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
Turing was born in a prominent family in London in 1912, and his ancestor was knighted. His father studied at Oxford University in his early years, and his mother graduated from the University of Paris. Born in such a Kochi family, Turing would have difficulty thinking ordinary.
Since elementary school, Turing has shown unusual talents. In the words of his tutor, learning by others is like building a house step by step, and he tried to build the roof before building the foundation.
At the age of 19, Turing entered King’s College, Cambridge University in 1931. At that time, King’s College was shining with stars. There were not only mathematicians Hardy and Newman, but also the famous philosopher Russell and economist Keynes. In addition, under the influence of the Nazi regime in continental Europe, many intellectuals from Italy and Germany came to Britain to seek asylum, and Cambridge and Oxford accepted many prominent figures. It is precisely because of this rare academic environment that Turing has grown up very quickly. He has become a researcher in 1935. The following year his paper "On Computable Numbers and Its Application in Decision Problems" was published. Some people think that even if the graph Ling's research ends here, so he can also enter the ranks of the greatest scientists. It is this article that laid the foundation for computer science and artificial intelligence. After being called a mathematics genius, Turing responded modestly: Newton discovered the binomial theorem at the age of 22, and Einstein published four influential physics papers at the age of 26. These were beyond his reach. . But at that age, he was able to compare with the two giants of science, which is a great achievement in itself.
After that, Turing went to Princeton alone to continue his studies and obtain a doctorate, and then returned to the UK.
After the start of World War II, Turing was requisitioned by the British army because of his outstanding mathematical talents. He participated in the cracking of the German cipher battle. The movie "Hunting U571" shows this history. Among them, the British naval submarine forces tried their best. In order to obtain a complete "Inigma" cryptographic machine, Turing's main job is to decipher German codes. After the war, Turing transferred to the National Physics Laboratory to continue his research. In 1950, Turing published a paper on computer machines and intelligence, which further broadened the field of artificial intelligence research.
But everything came to an abrupt end on June 7, 1954. Turing died at home on this day. The cause of death was potassium cyanide poisoning. Was it next to his body? A bitten apple was discarded, investigators Presumably, Turing smeared potassium cyanide on the apple and took a bite.
But Turing’s mother and brother denied this claim. They believed Turing’s death was an accident, because he was doing biophysical research at the time, often using potassium cyanide, perhaps accidentally contaminated his nails. Cover it, and he has the habit of sucking his fingers since he was a child, and may be poisoned to death. However, their claims have also been questioned because Turing believed in Catholicism, and suicide in Catholicism means going to hell. The relatives said so, just to help him save his reputation!
Turing is always dead no matter what the reason is. Regarding the reason, he unanimously points to his orientation.
Turing is gay!
is placed today. This is not a taboo topic. Apple’s CEO Cook is openly gay, and the Prime Minister of Luxembourg is also gay. In the entertainment, cultural, and sports circles, same-sex orientation is commonplace. Social progress and humanity His tolerance has long since played down the sluggish human relations taboos.
But at the time, this behavior was not acceptable to the world, even in Britain, which is known for its human freedom.
After the exposure of same-sex behavior, Turing faced two choices. One was to go to jail for two years.The other is to receive estrogen injections, which is similar to today's "chemical castration", that is, to eliminate his desires through drugs. The helpless Turing chose the latter, but soon he discovered that the injection had caused irreparable damage to his body, his male characteristics were atrophied, his body became weak, and more importantly, his intelligence seemed to suffer. For Turing, who loves sports and participated in the 1948 Olympic marathon, this is undoubtedly a great humiliation, and the intellectual damage has stopped his research, everything is terrible.
Facing this hostile world, Turing lonely chose to say goodbye!
In 2013, at the request of many people, the Queen of England issued a royal pardon to Turing. This outstanding scientist who made great contributions to Britain finally cleared his grievances.
The computer science he pioneered has profoundly affected the direction of human science in the 20th century. The ascendant AI is considered to be the development trend of the 21st century. The late Apple founder Jobs is a loyal fan of Turing. It is said that the LOGO of Apple products Design originated from Turing's death.
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