Alan Turing: An Individual of the Twentieth Century - A. Hodges - 5/21/2015

Talk abstract:

Alan Turing (1912-1954) was the founder of modern computer science and the chief scientific cryptographer of the Second World War.

Andrew Hodges, PhD, is the author of "Alan Turing: The Enigma," upon which the Academy Award-winning (Adapted Screenplay) "The Imitation Game," is based. Hodges offers the words of Walt Whitman referenced in his biography of Turing as a preview for this lecture: "One's-self I sing—a simple, separate Person; / Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse."

In this talk, Hodges—Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, University of Oxford— described some of the achievements that made Turing a very singular individual, but one caught up in the great sweep of twentieth-century science and history.

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