Alan Turing and the German Enigma machine

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Naval Enigma
Alan Turing

Statue of Turing by Stephen Kettle at Bletchley Park, commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney E Frank.[31]
Turing decided to tackle the particularly difficult problem of German naval Enigma "because no one else was doing anything about it and I could have it to myself".[32] In December 1939,

Turing solved the essential part of the naval indicator system, which was more complex than the indicator systems used by the other services.[32][33] The same night that he solved the naval indicator system, he conceived the idea of Banburismus, a Bayesian statistical technique to assist in breaking naval Enigma, "though I was not sure that it would work in practice, and was not in fact sure until some days had actually broken".[32] Banburismus could rule out certain orders of the Enigma rotors, reducing time needed to test settings on the bombes.

 

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And the point would be...?

 

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To discuss this remarkable man and his work on the Enigma machine, which helped the British and American war effort during the second world war

 

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I see. Don't you think some comment of your own would have been helpful?
And you post it this section because..?
Note that Intelligence and Machines is for "AI, robotics, computational neuroscience, brain emulation, cognition systems", i.e. machine intelligence.

 

"No man is an island", Turing didn't work alone, yes he gets credit as he should but it's not his alone. A lot of men and women put in the man hours to put together the machine used and check it's outputs, of course they tend to be the "unsung heroes".