I could tentatively agree with “invention” of computers, but to say he didn’t use them (or hardware that could be classified as such) to further decryption efforts of messages in WW2 seems a little insane. He was pivotal to those efforts and to ongoing advancements in the field of computer science.
I don’t even understand why you made this comment. Turing was for all accounts a leading and influential mind. Why try to take that away from him? He wasn’t a bad guy.
Turing cracked codes using a Bombe, which is a machine invented by the Polish and is not a computer. His main work in computing came after the war, joining the pre-existing programme at Manchester where he wrote an early program. His achievements are many, and it isn’t necessary to attribute to him ones that were others, or to do him the disservice of misattribution because he happens to be a “celebrity”.
The computing work at Bletchley Park consisted of the Colossus machines, built by Tommy Flowers to crack communications between the German High Command, while Turing was on a separate programme using improved bombes to decrypt Enigma.
I could tentatively agree with “invention” of computers, but to say he didn’t use them (or hardware that could be classified as such) to further decryption efforts of messages in WW2 seems a little insane. He was pivotal to those efforts and to ongoing advancements in the field of computer science.
I don’t even understand why you made this comment. Turing was for all accounts a leading and influential mind. Why try to take that away from him? He wasn’t a bad guy.
Turing cracked codes using a Bombe, which is a machine invented by the Polish and is not a computer. His main work in computing came after the war, joining the pre-existing programme at Manchester where he wrote an early program. His achievements are many, and it isn’t necessary to attribute to him ones that were others, or to do him the disservice of misattribution because he happens to be a “celebrity”.
The computing work at Bletchley Park consisted of the Colossus machines, built by Tommy Flowers to crack communications between the German High Command, while Turing was on a separate programme using improved bombes to decrypt Enigma.