Alan Turing

Karl Marx, the influential German philosopher of the 19th century, is considered to be the father of the conflict approach in Sociology. This approach can be used to describe disparities in society where sides, the advantaged and the disadvantaged, are in direct conflict with each other. During the 19th century Marx used his conflict theory to bring attention to the division between the social classes. Ferris and Stein explain in their textbook that as new industry developed and people moved en…

Turing is widely regarded as the father of modern computing for his efforts at Bletchley Park. As the war pushed on, The British realized the importance of deciphering the enigma’s code without knowing it’s specific configuration. Increased efforts in this…

On the question whether machines can think, Descartes and Turing are in strong disagreement. Evaluate the arguments on either side. Does Searle's 'Chinese Room' argument help resolve the debate? The ‘thinking machine’ debate raises numerous philosophical questions on the nature of thinking and how a machine could replicate the way our brains think. With advances in technology, the idea of building a machine that can replicate a brain is somewhat plausible, but this still may be a long way off.…

eventually learned that Turing had a homosexual relationship with a 19 year-old man… After Turing pled guilty in an effort to minimize damage to his career, the judge offered him a choice: spend one year behind bars or endure an experimental hormone treatment to “fix” his sexual orientation. Alan chose what amounted to chemical castration, which, among other things, caused him to grow womanly body parts. A year later, he committed suicide by taking a lethal dose of cyanide.” Alan Turing was a…

ability to act on what they have read. A real life example of enlightenment is an English computer scientist and mathematician, Alan Turing. Alan Turing was inspired to do something that had meaning to him, just like Montag had a passion for books and learning about them. Alan Turning had a passion for solving complex puzzles like crosswords, machines and codes. Turing pursued his interests and ultimately cracked the biggest code known to man – the Enigma. He developed a machine that broke the…

For example, when Turing is being interviewed for the role of cryptographer, Denniston says, “Enigma isn’t difficult, it’s impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable,” and implies that Turing would be unable to solve the codes. However, Turing responds, “Good. Let me try and we’ll know for sure.” He is so confident in his abilities that he knows he…

criticism may have been because Alan Turing has finally been given justice after 60 years. The historical inaccuracies were not major, although added up, they play a key role in the interest level of the audience. For example in the movie, Benedict Cumberbatch plays an awkward genius Alan Turing who could not understand a simple invitation to lunch. When in reality, Turing’s character was not as Hollywood or dramatic as portrayed in the film. Instead of embracing Turing for the character he was,…

Turing conceived the idea of the Turing machine, a machine that is purely theoretical but can always prove a point. A complete point that is to simplify the method to solving simple operations. Turing testing is a game designed to test the intelligence of humans and computers. Set in different rooms a person gives questions to one computer and one human…

high-level encrypted messages sent through the German military, using the Enigma as a form of communication during World War II. In order to accomplish the utmost important task of cracking Germany's Enigma machine people like Joseph R. Desch and Alan Turing moved to improve and polish Poland’s successful attempt to imitate the Enigma with the bombe. Poland shared the bombe with the British and French on July 1939. This resulted in the British bombe which worked like 36 Enigma machines linked…

Created in 1981 by Hilary Putnam the Brain in a Vat theory is about a science fiction possibility of our brains quite literally being in a vat. Hilary Putnam uses referencing or representation, the Turing Test, the rules of language and a host of examples to establish that the statement “we are brains in a vat” is a self-refuting statement. He asks the question “Could we, if we were brains in a vat in this way, say or think that we were?” (Putnam 1981, p7) and comes to the conclusion that we…