The Imitation Game

     Alan Turing was an English computer scientist, cryptanalyst, and mathematician. He was the creator of "the Turing machine" or what is now known as a computer. During WWII, Turing worked in the Government Code and Cypher School. He invented a machine that could help find settings for the Enigma Machine. The machine was used to figure out Nazi traffic signals. It has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over fourteen million lives.
     The movie The Imitation Game shows us his life during and after WWII and the breaking of the Enigma codes.
     In the 1950s, homosexuality in England was still illegal. He was gay and prosecuted with homosexual acts in 1952. He accepted chemical castration over imprisonment. Turing committed suicide in 1954.
     The movie brought Turing's legacy to a wider audience.
     Despite having helped save so many lives, he was still treated unfairly. If people could have been more open towards homosexuality, we could have advanced more technologically and it probably wouldn't have been the end of a great man. People realized they did the wrong thing too late. This should always remain in our minds so that we can never make the same mistakes again.

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