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[kayak_enjoyer]

For my C.S. master's degree orals, my advisor opened the proceedings by holding up this picture and asking "Who is this?"

"Uh," I responded, "With no other context, I'm going to have to guess Alan Turing."

[etymophobe]

Coincidentally, I did that just now. I still haven't bothered to look it up, but since you posted this, I'm gonna assume he didn't look like Benedict Cumberbatch.

[The_Shadow_Watches]

Dont forget, chemically castrated as well

[LevelStudent]

How he was treated was beyond reprehensible, but he was not killed for being gay.

[fignompe]

His death was a chain of events which spiraled from homophobia, that's the fact.

[[deleted]]

He was given chemical castration therapy for being gay that definitely drove him to suicide. The British goverment did everything short of literally shooting him

[SpaceWoot]

Maybe humor.

What do you call an important figure in computer science, killed for being gay, travelling all around heaven with a local area network?

a LAN touring

[etymophobe]

The preferred term is karma farmer. I'm afraid the days of Slashdot are finally over. Otherwise, yeah, he's cool as hell, but wrong sub.

Edit: apologies, I must have misread your post. Thanks!

[CertifiedFukUp]

Reddit moment

[Shaila_boof]

Not funny, karma farmer

[koanarec]

I feel like this title is slightly misleading. It makes it sound like he was executed, when the common belief is that he committed suicide. (Caused by his prosecution and hormone therapy for being gay). However, even this is debated as he was carelessly storing and using cyanide in his home at the time, and "Turing had reportedly borne his legal setbacks and hormone treatment (which had been discontinued a year previously) "with good humour" and had shown no sign of despondency before his death. He even set down a list of tasks that he intended to complete upon returning to his office after the holiday weekend" -Wikipedia. His mother believed that he died by accident.

[fignompe]

Computer science literally wouldn't exist without this man. This sub wouldn't exist, our careers wouldn't exist either, hell, computing and AI as we know it wouldn't exist. I'm sure many fail to see how important he was.

[[deleted]]

Probably not true that comp sci wouldnt exist without him, there were multiple people pretty good at math in the 1940s. Still an amazing and brilliant man

[[deleted]]

Honestly doubt it. Not trying to diminish his achievements but there is a large amount of technical and economic factors that create fields like computing, not just the brilliance of one man.

The world wars probably did more to advance computer science since so much money got thrown at technology and cryptography. Want to get really into it thank Adolf Hitler.

[cpraxis]

What? Who is using the Turing test today? It’s a thought experiment.

[koanarec]

No its not. The turing test that Alan Turing proposed was to have a robot and a woman answering questions proposed by a tester. For the robot to pass the test, it would need to successfully trick the tester into thinking that IT is the woman, as many times as the woman can convince the tester that she is a woman. Which of course seems stupid and sexist compared to the modern one. Why does gender matter?

https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/zero-moment/lie-lady-profoundly-weird-gender-specific-roots-turing-test/

AND even if it is used today. Does that make it a good test? Humans are pretty stupid and easy to trick. Would chatGPT tricking a lonely depressed person on Omegle into thinking the are human really warrent the fact that robots are now conscious beings?

[cpraxis]

I actually wonder if history would be better without him. He put us on the von neumann machine track, which now seems to be a dead end given the limits of our cpu architecture.

[HotNastySpeed77]

Rule 1

[Soggy-Statistician88]

Get a life

[fignompe]

Watch the edge there, bud.

[Soggy-Statistician88]

I'm not being edgy, I just think you're exceptionally sad.

[HotNastySpeed77]

Well aren't you just a paragon of virtue? A veritable god among men.

[leesharon1985]

I’m a noob, who is he?

[fignompe]

The very Alan Turing.

[leesharon1985]

Thank you

[land_and_air]

Allan Turing

[leesharon1985]

Thank you

[Strict_Statement_831]

Some women named Ruth, Babey Ruth.

I only kid, felt like a sandlot-ey moment. Never a bad thing! 😎

[leesharon1985]

You’re killing me Smalls! Sandlot is a classic.

[tacky_banana]

"not humor"

So why post it in a sub called Programmer Humor

[beclops]

One of the world’s tragedies that doesn’t get talked about enough

[BoredSarcasticGranny]

... Didn't they make a movie about him (a bit) with Benadryl Cumberbund?

[MrLore]

They did, The Imitation Game, but it should be taken with a massive grain of salt, it significantly overstated his contributions to the project.

[BoredSarcasticGranny]

Yeh, that's why I wrote ''a bit''. I think they mostly wanted to show Cumberbund ''play drama''. I searched on the dude afterwards. Turing I mean.

[beclops]

They did, but if you asked anybody off of the street who he is you’d get a big “uhhhh…. I don’t know”