Forum:Alan Turing Week

SEE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212910/How-Britain-drove-greatest-genius-Alan-Turing-suicide--just-gay.html

It has came to My attention that recently, Gordon brown PM (Prime Minister of the UK). Made a Posthumous Apology to a man named Alan Turing, Who was driven to suicide for bieng Gay. But after looking into this Turing fellow A bit more, I realised exactly WHY, he was such a big deal. Alan Turing turns out is Horribly Unsung, HE deserves more recognition, He done More then ONE thing that changed the world.

Born in London, Turing Became a renowned Mathmatition, During the second world war he was given the task of trying to solve codes from the German "Enigma Machine", Something created by the germans to translate messeges into code incase the British ever captured one of their U-Boats, (Witch They did). The Egnigma Machine would Produce Messeges In code that the germans had made up and Confused the British.

Ofcourse after a while It became apparent that the code was Unbreakable (To A human brain), And so Turing looked at it from another angle, Would It be possible for a Machine to translate?, Using this theory Turing started work on a machine that he believed may be able to Mimic human Intelligence, This worked in the "Turing Test Machine" A machine Alan Turing made to Complete Maths sums, With this Alan Turing had created Artificial intelligence, Using this alan created a machine that could usse info from the German Enigma Machine to translate the code into English, HE managed to do this and in doing so Alan Turing Invented the computer.

Now the British got every messege that the germans tried to send to eachothers U-Boats and Subsequently Won the War of the atlantic, If it were not for Turing then it was probably that Nazi's would have won

Unfortunatly, After the second world war the Authoritys found out that Alan Turing, was Indeed, Homosexual, In britain at that time Homosexuality was classed as a mental illness, Turing was Incriminated for "Gross Indecentcy", But instead of bieng sent to prison, They Put Turing through something Much worse, I wont Go into details of what they called this punishment, But they Forcibally Injected Turin with chemicals every week, These were apparently meant to stop him from bieng gay but instead, Disabled him, He started to suffer from Extreme Fatigue and eventualy became so ill he was HouseBound (Just because he was Homosexual), As a result, Turing eventualy decided that that liife was not worth living, and so he dipped an apple in the Poison, Cyanide, and ate it, He died Instantly.

The disgraceful way in witch this hero was treated Should be a lesson to the world Homophobia is wrong, Without Turing the Germans would have won the second world war!!, and We would not have computors, We would not have anything that uses a Computor either, We Would not have this wiki, The Apple company and logo, Is an apple in memory of Turing. I suggest we do something similar to commemorate this person, Mabye Putting an Apple in the logo, Or "Alan Turing 1912-1954". You dont have too, But itde be a good Idea, Turing (In my opinion) should be mentioned more.

Ofcourse dont feel pressured to do what I say say what you want

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Leekduck (Da Pwnsome) 11:33, September 12, 2009 (UTC)