Reviewing Turings Enigma

Reviewed the book:  Alan Turing: The Enigma  by Alan Hodges. Hodges also has a site that provides resource materials and updates to the book at   http://www.turing.org.uk.     See the movie, The Imitation Game, now available on Netfllix, generally based on the book.

Truth in Film Visualized

In InformationisBeautiful: An interesting view of film truth versus fiction, visualized in a time line.   I took a look at the Turing biopic example 'The Imitation Game'.  Relatively recent history.   I have always been intrigued to understand the extent to which film based on truth is actually true.   Of course, this depends on the contextual meaning of truth.  No video cameras were present, later recollections can always be suspect. Agendas drive portrayal.  And I am sure debatable depending on observer,   A problem with all kinds of history. Would like to see this kind of data in near real time. Worth a look.   Another film done is 'The Social Network',  covering a much later period, but also computing history.

Have used the real-time timeline for other kinds of data like sales delivery versus marketing spend. The simplicity can be instructive.

Alan Turing Year and now the Movie

" ... June 23, 2012, was the Centenary of Alan Turing’s birth in London. During his relatively brief life, Turing made a unique impact on the history of computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability..... "  This is from a site that continues the observation.  And a Twitter presence.  In addition there is a new movie on the topic: The Imitation Game, to be released this November 28 in the US.  The movie is on my list.