Alan Turing presentation about his great contributions to Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and his role as World War II Hero

1. ALAN TURING
Math Genius
Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence

2. ALAN TURING
◦ Born in 1912
◦ Ultra-Mega-Super Math Genius!
◦ Openly gay

3. Computer
Science and the
Turing Machine
A machine that would calculate anything
calculable

4. Artificial
Intelligence
The Imitation Game

5. Turing Test - The Imitation Game
Player A
Tries to deceive
player C
Player B
Tries to help player
C
Player C
Tries to figure out
whether Player A
or B is a Man or a
Woman / Person or
Machine

6. “
A computer would deserve be called
intelligent if it could deceive a human into
believing that it was human.

7. World War II
Hero
codebreaking nazi secret messages
saving millions of lives

8. ENIGMA
electro-mechanical
rotor cipher machine
used by Germany in
WWII for enciphering
and deciphering secret
messages

11. Turing's Death
brutal prejudice and the cyanide apple

12. REVIEW
Computer
Science
Provided formalisation of the
concepts of "Algorithm" and
"Computation" with the Turing
Machine
Artificial
Intelligence
Turing test and the idea of a
intelligent computers being able
to deceive humans
World War II
Hero
Saved millions of lives and
defeated Nazis
Turing's Death
Brutal prejudice that made him
suicide with an cyanide poisoned
apple

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