Alan Turing to be in the new 50 Pound note.  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2019, 04:11:30 pm
content: You can read it here:https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/business/alan-turing-50-pound-note/index.html

author: steve30
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2019, 04:45:35 pm
content: Good choice.Kinda sucks that they are changing it to polymer though. The current paper £50 notes do have a rather nice feel to them. I understand that the current £50 notes are supposed to be one of the more secure bank notes around, but I suppose it would have to go polymer eventually, since all the others are.The only question now is, how easy will it be to extract them from the banks? Despite the £50 note's rather low value, many banks and building societies don't tend to keep them handy.

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2019, 05:05:56 pm
content: As one of the people who voted for AM Turing to appear on the banknote I am glad to see this has happened.

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2019, 06:12:49 pm
content: A signal waaaaaaaaay too late , only after 57 years the government apologized not because they wanted to or came up with the idea, no because the people started a campaign. Quite an embarrassing episode for London if you ask me.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2019, 08:01:00 pm
content: How accurate is the movie: The Imitation Game?Is It correct that the British government ordered Colossus and its complete blueprints destroyed, and forbade the scientists to even talk about it?If this is correct, this also prevented Turing and its group from obtaining the recognition they richly deserved, until much, much later.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2019, 08:38:46 pm
content: Yes, I believe that was the case. Everyone working at Bletchly Park was sworn to secrecy until very recently (in historical terms). Tommy Flower, the inventor or the Colossus, used to crack the Lorenz code, was just sent back to his job at the GPO. Many of their achievements went unrecognised until after their deaths.A forum search for 'Colossus' will bring up many relevant threads.

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2019, 09:49:15 pm
content: The same goes for Konrad Zuse who build the worlds first fully Turing complete computer the Z3.Only in 1998 proven.

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2019, 07:48:47 am
content: Quote from: schmitt trigger on July 15, 2019, 08:01:00 pmIt was a load of bullshit. The stupidest thing for me was the idea that the machine was practically singlehandedly built by the guy while his handful of co-workers hung out at the pub. It would have taken 200 years. In reality the construction of the machine in wartime haste would have been an industrial effort. The real Joan Clarke didn't look like Keira Knightley either, by a long shot. The scene where Knightley unsuccessfully pleaded with Cumberbatch to let her be his committed, abstinent wife was one of the most unconvincing climaxes of any superficial Hollywood romance. And the Turing Test came after. Turing's improved Bombe didn't imitate anything. The whole "Imitation Game" narrative was just retarded.Quotehttps://slate.com/culture/2014/12/the-imitation-game-fact-vs-fiction-how-true-the-new-movie-is-to-alan-turings-real-life-story.html

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2019, 08:04:32 am
content: Quote from: steve30 on July 15, 2019, 04:45:35 pmAnd better than an English cricketer.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2019, 09:08:27 am
content: Personally; I would like to see The Beatles.I am sure in the future they will be recognized somehow.

author: NivagSwerdna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2019, 09:23:03 am
content: I cannot remember the last time I saw a £50 note... I think they are nowadays used almost exclusively for drug dealing and money laundering... and probably have high cocaine traces.Alan Turing does deserve the recognition but I always feel very uneasy about the Enigma story... it normally fails to recognise the preceding work done by Polish mathematicians... to some extent covered here...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-14141406