For the #SciArtSeptember prompt futurist: Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, & complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), but that we needed an objective, double-blind test … 🧵1/n

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Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & hero. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, and complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), but that we needed an objective, double-blind test to determine whether something/someone was 🧵1/n

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Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a woman that was brilliant. Mother of two kids. Crypt-analyst. She succeeded to decrypt thousand of encrypted messages. She helped to indict Al Capone. During the World War II, she intercepted thousand of Nazi messages coming from South America. Thanks to that, the huge RMS Queen Mary was saved and thousand of lives were spared. It is only one among many of her achievements. I can't say how far I am admiring. She deserves immense recognition.

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Elizebeth Smith Friedman

(*26. August 1892 –31. October 1980)

"America's first female cryptanalyst"

How Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman Broke Up a Nazi Spy Ring:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-pbs-film-tells-story-wwii-codebreaker-elizabeth-friedman-180976759/

https://time.com/5928583/elizebeth-friedman-codebreaker/

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Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & hero. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, and complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), …

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