[Year 12 IT Apps] Imitation Game - The World's first Computer

[Therese Keane]

Last night, I saw  "The imitation Game” which brilliantly portrayed Alan Turing’s life. If you are at a loose end on New Year’s day (I believe it is the Australian release day) - perhaps a visit to Village or Hoyts will inspire you?

The Imitation Game is a 2014 British-American historical<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_drama_films> thriller<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)> film about British mathematician<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematician>, logician<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logician>, cryptanalyst<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalyst> and pioneering computer scientist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_scientist> Alan Turing<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing>, a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany>'s Enigma code<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_code> that helped the Allies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_WWII> win World War II<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II>, only to later be criminally prosecuted for his homosexuality<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality>. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch> as Turing. The film portrays the race against time by Alan Turing and his team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Code_and_Cypher_School>at Bletchley Park<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park>, during the darkest days of World War II<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II>. The motley group of scholars, mathematicians, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers had a powerful ally in Prime Minister<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister> Winston Churchill<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill> who authorized the provision of any resource they required. The film spans the key periods of Turing's life: his unhappy teenage years at boarding school; the triumph of his secret wartime work on the revolutionary electro-mechanical bombe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe> that was capable of breaking 3,000 Enigma-generated naval codes a day; and the tragedy of his post-war decline following his conviction for gross indecency<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_indecency>, a criminal offence stemming from his admission of maintaining a homosexual relationship. (Taken from Wikipedia)

If you want a preview see - http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi969255961

Cheers
Therese



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