{"id":8629,"date":"2012-06-21T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/?p=8629"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:27:11","slug":"spotlight-the-legacy-of-alan-turing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2012\/spotlight-the-legacy-of-alan-turing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: The Legacy of Alan Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Spotlight: The Legacy of Alan Turing\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/60955000\/jpg\/_60955898_turingage16amtk74.jpg\" alt=\"Turing as a young man. He is a white man in suit and tie, with dark hair crisply parted.\" title=\"Alan Turing\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This Saturday, June 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2012, marks what would have been the 100<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of Alan Turing \u2013 without Turing, this website, the CMS, or modern computing as we know it may have never existed as it is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Turing\u2019s most famous contributions was the Bombe decryption, a crucial tool in deciphering the German Enigma codes and defeating the Nazis in World War II. He also designed the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine), one of the first machines to operate on memory storage, and developed a test that could judge artificial intelligence versus human intelligence. Not only were his ideas and inventions ahead of his time, but so was cultural acceptance of his way of life; after receiving chemical castration in punishment for being gay, Turing was driven to suicide in 1954.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan Turing\u2019s legacy was enormous, and many celebrations are occurring in celebration of his birthday, including an exhibit at the London Science Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about Alan Turing&#8217;s legacy, the details of his tragic death, and the celebrations of his life, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-17662585\">this BBC article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, June 23rd, 2012, marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Alan Turing \u2013 without Turing, this website, the CMS, or modern computing as we know it may have never existed as it is now. One of Turing\u2019s most famous contributions was the Bombe decryption, a crucial tool in deciphering the German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[369,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carleton-cms","category-keep"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21381,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions\/21381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}