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Synopsis: The highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution through to his tragic death in 1954. In the last 18 months of his short life, Turing visited a psychiatrist, Dr. Franz Greenbaum, who tried to help him. Each therapy session in this drama documentary is based on real events. The conversations between Turing and Greenbaum explore the pivotal moments in his controversial life and examine the pressures that may have contributed to his early death. The film also includes the testimony of people who actually knew and remember Turing. Plus, this film features interviews with contemporary experts from the world of technology and high science including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. These contributors bring Turing's exciting impact up to the present day, explaining why, in many ways, modern technology has only just begun to explore the potential of Turing's ideas.
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Drama
Director(s): Clare Beavan, Nic Stacey
Actors: Ed Stoppard, Henry Goodman, Paul McGann, Asa Briggs
Production: TODpix
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IMDB:
7.0
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Year:
2011
62 min
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He said, 'During the last year

I worked with him continually

and I'm sure that I could not have found

anywhere another companion so brilliant

and yet so charming and unconceited.

[Turing's voice] '/ regarded my interest in

my Work as something to be shared With him

and I think he felt a little

the same about me.

I know that I must put as much energy

into my Work as if he were alive

because that is what

he would like me to do.

Yours sincerely, Alan Turing.'

My mother was very

worried at the time

because I insisted that

Morcom was still with me

working with me, helping me.

He was my companion

and in some ways he was an even

steadier companion after his death.

I didn't want to frighten anyone,

but I knew he was still there.

After Chris's death,

Alan was determined to go to Cambridge

and in fact Alan did end up

with a scholarship to King's College.

Turing felt that there was unfinished work

which Chris had started

and which he wanted to continue.

It was while he was at Cambridge that

he wrote what would prove to be

I think, one of the...

seminal papers in mathematics

of the 20th century.

I don't think anyone, Turing included

was remotely aware of the significance

that this paper was going to have.

It introduces the idea of the computer.

Well, in my mind,

the reason Alan Turing is

well, one of the greatest

scientists of the 20th century

is this paper.

All our modern computers,

from laptops to video games

are exactly what he

laid out in this paper.

When Turing did his early work on computers

the word 'computer' didn't mean

a machine, as it does now.

It meant a person.

It meant a person who calculates,

who computes.

Hundreds and hundreds of young women

with mechanical calculating machines in a room.

And they would do little bits of calculation

and write the answers down on cards

and pass them along

to the next person in line.

And so Turing is clearly starting to think

'can we automate the whole thing?'

And the answer he comes up with is 'yes!'

He was working on a mathematics problem.

Almost incidentally to

a solution of that problem

he did a construction that

he called the universal machine.

And what that construction did

was just change the way people

thought about computation

in a very fundamental way.

Turing's Universal Machine

was purely hypothetical

but it laid out the fundamental principle

underpinning all computers -

that any conceivable mathematical calculation

can be done by a single device

shuffling ones and zeros back and forth.

This is a model of his theoretical machine

from this maths problem.

And the way this works is, he said,

you'll have some kind of processing head

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Craig Warner

Craig Warner (born 25 April 1964) is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England. His play Strangers on a Train, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, ran in London's West End in 2013–14, and starred Jack Huston, Laurence Fox, Miranda Raison, Imogen Stubbs, Christian McKay, and MyAnna Buring. It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and produced by Barbara Broccoli. He wrote The Queen's Sister for Channel 4, which was nominated for several BAFTA awards (including Best Single Drama), Maxwell for BBC2, which garnered a Broadcasting Press Guild Award nomination for Best Single Drama and won David Suchet an International Emmy for Best Actor, and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers , for which Warner was longlisted for a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer, and which won him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2010. He wrote the mini-series Julius Caesar for Warner Bros., which gained Warner a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Original Long-Form Drama, and he performed an extensive uncredited rewrite on The Mists of Avalon, also for Warner Bros., which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and nine Emmys, including Best Mini-series. Warner wrote the screenplay for Codebreaker, a film about Alan Turing. Craig Warner started out writing for the theatre and for radio. His first radio play for BBC Radio 4, Great Men of Music, was performed by Philip Davis and was included in Radio 4's first Young Playwrights Festival. His second play By Where the Old Shed Used to Be, with Miranda Richardson, won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, and it was included in the volume of winners for 1989, published by Methuen. His play Figure With Meat also won a Giles Cooper Award and was published in the Methuen volume of 1991. Craig Warner is the award's youngest ever winner, having received it for the first time when he was 24. He is also a composer and has written music and songs for a number of his works, including a full-length musical for BBC Radio 3 about the legend of Cassandra, called Agonies Awakening. Warner received a BA in Philosophy from King's College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He was born in Los Angeles. more…

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