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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
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2011
62 min
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which is basically what

the machine actually is.

It would be looking at a tape.

And so we've got here

a tape with symbols on it.

And the machine would have instructions.

So as it reads different symbols,

it can move the tape forward

it can wind it back.

And it could generally process

the information on the tape

And part of Alan Turing's

genius was to realise

that a machine like this can

compute absolutely anything

because anything can be

written as ones and zeros.

And this is the basis of all computers.

And the introduction of the universal machine

made up of apparently

absurdly simple components

a strip of paper, a pencil

a wheel to move the paper left and right

a set of very simple instructions.

These apparently trivial devices turn out

to have the most profound implications.

I've got here a generic smart phone.

And if you crack this open,

inside it in the centre here is the processor.

So this chip here does exactly what

Alan Turing described this machine doing.

And on the back of this I have

the memory, which is the tape.

And again it's exactly

what Alan Turing described.

A single machine that can be

programmed to do virtually anything.

In the coming years, it would be seen as

a moment of discovery, like Newton's apple.

The digital age had begun.

People credit Turing with

the invention of the computer

because he invented the concept

on which everything else was built.

[Archive footage narrator]

'In the electronics age

the development of giant computers,

electronic brains, has been a key development...'

He writes something that is so original

that you can't categorise it into any of the normal

mathematical categories that are around.

He started something genuinely new.

When you look back

at something like computers

there's often a seed that

everything came from.

Alan Turing was sort of at the top

of everything that ever developed

all the future research that was done

by people building real equipment

that can clink, clink, clink - compute!

One day ladies will be walking their

computers in the park and saying

'do you know, my little computer said

a very funny thing to me this morning'.

We have universal Turing machines

in hardware in our homes

and we use them for dozens

and dozens of different tasks.

Very few parts of our modern life

aren't impacted by Turing's ideas.

The things that he contributed

to computer science

weren't the things that just happened

to be true in one particular year

or in one particular decade.

They're the things that

are fundamentally true.

So they're always goings to be with us

in the same way that the things Galileo

and Newton contributed to physics

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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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