The Riddle Who Unlocked the Enigma
‘The Imitation Game’
Dramatizes the Story of Alan Turing
Alan Turing, the
figure at the center of the already much praised film,“The
Imitation Game,” which opens Nov. 28, is probably better known to
computer scientists than he is to most moviegoers. Turing, a British
mathematician, is now widely credited with helping to develop the theoretical
underpinnings for modern computing. He was also a war hero of sorts, largely
responsible for cracking the notoriously difficult Enigma code, which the
Germans used for virtually all their military communication in World War II.
Churchill believed that his was the single biggest contribution to Allied
victory.
But Turing,
obsessed with ciphers all his life, was himself a puzzle and a bundle of
contradictions. He was famously eccentric and antisocial, more at home
with numbers than with people. He was also forthrightly gay at a time when
homosexual activity was illegal in Britain
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02 /movies/the-imitation-game-dramatizes-the-story-of-alan-turing.html?_r=0
Structure of the Lead：
WHO- Alan
Turing
WHEN- World
War II
WHAT- helped to
develop the theoretical underpinnings for modern computing
WHY- to crack the
notoriously difficult Enigma code
WHERE- not given
HOW-not given
Keywords：
1. underpinning: 基礎
2. Allied:
同盟國
3. cipher:
密碼
4. antisocial
: 不善交際的
5. indecency:
猬褻
6. castrated:
閹割
7. conspiracy:
共謀者
