So with ‘The Imitation Game’ fast approaching I notice many (myself included) have started taking a much more detailed interest into Alan Turing and his life and work. Now as much as I would highly recommend “Alan Turing – The Enigma” the biography by Andrew Hodges (which I am enjoying immensely!) I know that not […]

Written by Jess5_11 on 29 September 2014. 1 comment »
Category: Books, History
Tags: Alan Turing, book review, paul strathern, the big idea turing & the computer, The Imitation Game

                                        Imitation Game: Man or Enigma?   “Are you paying attention?” Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) says glaring down in a cold, gloomy police station interrogation room “You think you are in control of what will happen, […]

Written by Destiny on 29 September 2014. 2 comments »
Category: Books, Education, Film & TV, History, Quotes, Social & Political
Tags: Alan Turing, Allen Leech, Andrew Hodges, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bletchley Park, Charles Dance, Enigma, film review, Graham Moore, Imitation Game, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode, Morten Tyldum, Movie, Studio Canal, The Weinstein Company, World War II

Sometimes I think Alan Turing’s sexual orientation shouldn’t be as much of a mention as it often is. He shouldn’t be known as a homosexual in the first place but instead as the extraordinary code-breaking, brilliant individual he was, thinking ahead of the time he lived in. Then again, Turing’s sexuality shaped his life and […]

Written by freewomenxgrape on 4 September 2014. No comments »
Category: Education, History, Social & Political
Tags: Alan Turing, anti-gay, homophobia, homosexuality, The Imitation Game