Marshall Altman
Mrs. Ragusky
Argumentative Essay
09 January 2022
Why Alan Turing Deserves the USPS Stamp
Being on the United States Postal Services stamp is a symbol of great honor and prestige which all people strive for. But the person that should be on the stamp should most definitely be Alan Turing. Though he was born in England, he showed early on he was full of intelligence. Later he would help stop the entscheidungsproblem and in doing so made a theoretical machine that would create a new field of science. He would eventually be part of Project ULTRA, a code-breaking operation to crack all of the German code. He made significant contributions and eventually became the head of Hut 8, the part of ULTRA that dealt with the naval enigma.
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“The main focus of Turing’s work at
Bletchley was cracking the ‘Enigma’ code… Turing played a key role in this, inventing a machine known as the Bombe”(Imperial War Museums). This quote shows that Turing was a prominent figure in breaking the nazi code which would in turn make the war shorter. “With the help of captured Enigma material, and Turing’s work in developing a technique he called 'Banburismus', the naval Enigma messages were able to be read from 1941.He headed the ‘Hut 8’ team at Bletchley, which carried out cryptanalysis of all
German naval signals(Imperial War Museums). This states that Turing headed
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Even now people are trying to pass Turing’s test.(Gale) The third reason that Turing should be on the stamp is that he made the first modern computers. “In 1945, the war over, Turing was recruited to the National Physical
Laboratory (NPL) in London to create an electronic computer. His design for the
Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first complete specification of an electronic stored-program all-purpose digital computer.”(Copeland) This shows that people's entire lifestyle and work is all because of Alan Turing who came up with the idea of the forefather of computers and phones and most computation devices. The ACE was one of the first modern computers. (Copeland) This all says that because of Turing’s works
Computers exist now. The reason that this very document is able to be read is mostly in
Part of Turing's work. Turing’s computer would have had been faster than any other
Computer at the time and hold more memory. (Copeland) Though ACE was not the first
Computer Turing’s computation device was much better than the one before. However some people might think that Katherine Johnson should get the
The first reason why Alan Turing deserves the honor of being on the stamp is because of what he did during WWII. Alan Turing was a major asset to the Allies during WWII. According to the International Churchill Society, Winston Churchill said that Alan Turing made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany. Winston Churchill (The British prime minister during WWII) stated that Turing was extremely helpful in the war by cracking the enigma code which ended the war by around 2 to 4 years saving an estimated 14 million lives of people all around the world. Alan Turing also played a key part in the British code cracking team, “Alan Turing was responsible for breaking the Nazi Enigma code during World War II.
Alan Turing has inspired people with his algorithms, computing machinery and artificial intelligence (How Alan Turing’s legacy is inspiring our work today). This evidence shows that people were inspired to make future technological advancements by using his codes and algorithms to find AI in computers. Alan Turing has inspired people to decipher encrypted messages because of his attempt to decode the Enigma cipher machine used by the German military (Alan Turing By Jacob Aron). This evidence shows that Alan Turing was able to help the war effort for the British by cracking the Enigma Cipher machine that encrypts messages and frequencies. Alan Turing has inspired people to be fearless to daunting problems just like he did to find out a way to crack open the Enigma machine (What Alan Turing means to us).
The author begins this essay very extensive. He then begins to reduce it down by using specific reasons. To prove his argument, Carr uses various of different reasons, and experts. For example: Computers, typewriters, and the human brain. Carr’s tone is very morphart.
He has contributed to Microsoft and made many changes in which he was able to transform the computing industry. Moreover, he has dependably had more technical competence than interpersonal
Turing proved himself to be a valuable genius and his contributions to designing the Bombe were significant during World War II, but he encountered disgrace when authorities revealed he was homosexual. Two years after he was convicted of “gross indecency”, he committed suicide by ingesting a lethal