Have you heard of the Turing Award?
It is known as the Nobel Prize of computing
It was named after the British mathematical genius Turing
Turing is the father of artificial intelligence
He is also the protagonist of the movie "Imitation Game"
The Turing test he created is still in use today
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#图灵奖的来历
Known as the "Nobel Prize of computing", the Turing Prize was first established in 1966 and is the highest award awarded by the American Computer Association in computer technology.
It is named after the British mathematical genius Mr. Alan Mathison Turing, who was born in London, England on June 23, 1912, and Mr Turing made outstanding contributions to early computational theory and practice.
The Turing Prize is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of computer technology, and these contributions must have a long-term and important impact on the computer industry.
#二战英雄
During World War II, Turing, one of the top mathematicians of the time, was secretly sent by the British military to Bletchley Garden, the base camp for the British government to interpret codes.
Turing's most important job at the time was to help the Allies crack the Nazi military's communications security system, the Enigma cipher machine.
But in Bletchley Garden, the earliest automatic cracking of enigma code machines was not Turing's first, in 1938, the first decoder "bomb" began to operate, Turing came to Bletchley Park in 1939 and began to improve these devices, which was also the later "bombe".
In 1940, the first Turing's bombe went into operation, a one-ton Enigma cipher that could simulate 30 parallel Enigma machines. After successfully cracking the Enigma code, Turing made a great contribution during World War II - cracking the Tunny code.
To this day, most believe that the deciphering of the Enigma code gave the Allies victory in World War II.
#图灵测试
Alan Mathison Turing, who demonstrated a unique intuitive creative ability and love of mathematics at a young age, wrote a synopsis of one of Einstein's works at the age of 15 to help his mother understand Einstein's theory of relativity.
Turing in the movie Imitation Game
In 1936, Turing published a landmark paper, On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.
This paper proposes the concepts of "algorithm" and "computer", formulates the theory of Turing machine, and elaborates on the concept of Turing machine.
In those days, Turing's ideas were considered too radical for the vast majority of people to accept, and today, his Ideas of Turing Machines have been recognized as the precursors of contemporary computers.
Although this is Turing's own concept of intelligent machines and the single-handed establishment of the entire field of computer science, he constantly asks a question that is difficult for him to answer: "What is intelligence"? How to define this "intelligence"?
It was not until the 1950s that his famous paper "Computer Machinery and Intelligence" was officially published, which first proposed the concept of "artificial intelligence" and later became widely known as the "Turing test". The Turing test is designed to determine whether computers will one day be able to actually think like humans.
To this day, the Turing test has been seen as a fundamental measure of the pursuit of intelligent machines.
Later, we entered the digital age, and the continuous improvement of algorithms, the cognition of artificial intelligence, etc., are the results of people's dependence on Turing theory.
To this day, the great ideas left by Turing continue to evolve, and it still makes people sigh and move forward for it...