Mar 28 2006
Profile of Alan Turing
Book review on the New Yorker. Book name: “The Man Who Knew Too Much”
Turing had a lot in common with Maynard Keynes: gay, went to Cambridge, elected Fellows of King’s College, spectacularly brilliant in their own fields.
Turing died after being disclosed as and subsequently punished for being gay. He actually revealed the secret himself after being con-ed by a stud he picked up from the street. Suicide linked to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
He created the first chess game program. But that was before the invention of computer, operating system, compiler and programming language.
Talking about raw brain power.