Breaking the Code: Alan Turing
Breaking the Code: The Enigma of Alan Turing British mathematician Alan Turing broke the German military’s prized Enigma cipher in World War II, created the foundations of modern computer science, and pioneered the fields of artificial intelligence (“Can Machines Think?”). Turing was arrested for homosexuality and forced to undergo hormone treatments which may have led to his apparent suicide by cyanide poisoning. His brilliant achievements and tragic death have been the subject of biographies, essays, plays, novels, and films. In this course we will explore the life, times, and works of this remarkable individual and consider how Turing would view the current state of artificial intelligence.
Breaking the Code: The Enigma of Alan Turing British mathematician Alan Turing broke the German military’s prized Enigma cipher in World War II, created the foundations of modern computer science, and pioneered the fields of artificial intelligence (“Can Machines Think?”). Turing was arrested for homosexuality and forced to undergo hormone treatments which may have led to his apparent suicide by cyanide poisoning. His brilliant achievements and tragic death have been the subject of biographies, essays, plays, novels, and films. In this course we will explore the life, times, and works of this …Read more
This is one of the hardest fyse. It has tons of reading and it even has two written exam, a report, and two presentations. I feel like the class is pretty boring and time wasting. And the grading is not easy at all. This course really needs to put in lots of effort, there's too much reading.