The Inventor
Alan Turing
This British man can not be separated the history of the development of computer technology. He is known as a figure who played a big role in the early development of the creation of the first digital modern computer and is known as ‘Father of Computer Science’.
Alan Mathison Turing was born in London on June 23, 1912. He was the second child of Julius Mathison Turing and Ethel Sara Stoney. He has an older brother named John. F Turing's.
Alan Turing's father Julius Mathison Turing worked as a civil service worker in India while India was still under British rule. His mother, Ethel Sara Stoney, was the son of a railway worker.
While pregnant with Alan Turing, his parents wanted Alan Turing to be born in England, so they returned to England.
THE CHILDHOOD OF ALAN TURIN
In the biography of Alan Turing it is known that when Alan Turing was six years old, he then entered St. elementary school. Michael, and at the school, Alan Turing began to show his genius and amazed the principal of the school Alan Turing's genius.
In his teens, he read Albert Einstein's works and began to take an interest in the natural sciences and mathematics.
In 1926, Turing attended Sherbone School. Graduated from Sherbone School, Alan Turin then continued his education by studying at Cambridge University in Mathematics in 1931.
Alan Turing was influenced by the writings of Von Neumann, Russell and Whitehead on mathematics and science and in his college he was active in the peaceful movement.
MAKE ‘TURING MACHINE‘
In 1930, Alan Turing managed to make a machine called ‘Turing Machine‘ or Turin Machine is a machine that can run a set of simple commands that later became the forerunner of modern computers.
Quoted from the book The History of Psychology by George Boerre, Turing's machine is a tool that is able to change and manipulate basic abstract symbols.
The machine consists of a ribbon that can be used to read and write symbols on the tape of the turing machine, and can also make the tape as a storage area.
However, the turing machine is not limited to push and pop operations when accessing its storage media. Alan Turin also created computer science concepts, although they were still unknown.
In 1934, Alan Turing graduated from Cambridge University and thanks to his intelligence and achievements, he then received a scholarship from Princeton University in the United States to pursue his doctorate and successfully completed it in 1936.
MAKING CODE BREAKING MACHINE
After completing his education, Alan Turin then returned to England and worked in the Ministry of Communications of the United Kingdom. When World War II raged from 1939 to 1945, he was assigned to solve the information contained in the Enigma machine (Inscription Machine) made by Nazi Germany.
It didn't take long, though, Alan Turing then managed to crack the codes contained in the Enigma machine by making another Enigma code breaking machine (code breaker) named ‘The Bombe‘ which was created in 1939 by Alan Turing.
PIONER CREATED DIGITAL COMPUTERS
In the film titled ‘The Imitation Game’ the name of the machine made by Alan Turing was named ‘Cristopher’ but the real name of the enigma code breaking machine made by Alan Turing is The Bombe. This machine then became the pioneer of the early era of digital computers.
In the biography of Alan Turing it is known that his enormous services to his country made him later awarded as a war hero. After the world war, Alan Turing then published a scientific paper entitled ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence‘.
In his writing he proposed a method whether a machine also has ‘Artificial Intelligence‘ like a human brain which then his proposal is known as ‘Tes Turing‘.
During his life, Alan Turing tried hard so that the machine of his creation, the Turin Machine can be an automatic computer machine at the National Physical Laboratory but it was never achieved.
He then moved to the University of Manchester and there he made a guide to the automatic computer machine MADAM (Manchester Automatic Digital Machine).
THE END OF ALAN TURING'S LIFE
Later in 1954, Alan Turing got into trouble, he was arrested by local police on charges of having sexual relations with a young man where it was banned in the UK. Alan Turin was then punished with an estrogen injection with the aim of neutralizing his hormones.
As a result of these events, his reputation was destroyed and he then lost his job after a lot of pressure from the public because he was known as a Gay (Homosexual).
Continuous public pressure led Alan Turin to commit suicide by eating an apple containing cyanide poison at home in the region of Wislow, England on June 7, 1954.
His behavior as a homosexual kept the British empire from granting pardons despite his reputation as a war hero and a famous scientist in England.
FATHER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
It was not until 2013 that Queen Elizabeth pardoned herself after her death 60 years ago. Apart from Alan Turing's behavior, he is currently known as an important figure in the development of digital computers and computer science so he is dubbed as ‘Father of Computer Science’.
The popularity of Alan Turing made some producers then raise his life story in a film such as ‘The Imitation Game’, ‘Codebreaker’, ‘Decoding Alan Turing’ and ‘Breaking The Code’.
