![]() After the war, Turing also played a pivotal role in developing the technology for early computers. His work was a key factor in shortening the war and saving countless lives. Working at Bletchley Park, the UK’s codebreaking headquarters, Turing helped decipher the Enigma machine, which German Naval forces used to encode their messages. Yet Turing’s main claim to fame was to solve one of the world’s most infamous puzzles – the German Engima code. Ironically, despite his codebreaker pedigree, Turing claimed he was not particularly good at solving puzzles. ‘These are much harder to counterfeit, and with its security features the new £50 is part of our most secure series of banknotes yet.’ Bank of England Alan Turing, the father of computer science and artificial intelligence who broke Adolf Hitler's Enigma code system in World War II but who died an outcast because of his. ‘This new £50 note completes our set of polymer banknotes,’ said Sarah John, the Bank’s chief cashier whose signature features on the note ![]() In addition to these symbolic gestures, the note will also contain a number of security features, like holograms, see-through windows of Bletchley Park and foil patches. It will also include drawings of Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) Pilot machine, an early form of computer, and of the British Bombe, a machine invented by Turing to break the German Engima machine.Īs well as his signature and ticker tape depicting Turing’s birthday in binary code, the note will feature a quote from Turing that he gave to The Times in 1949, saying ‘This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be’. The note will feature a prominent photo of Turing, taken by Elliott and Fry in 1951, part of the National Gallery’s collection, as well as a maths formulae from Turing’s seminal 1936 paper ‘On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem’. Instead of the steam engine symbols in honour of pioneer engineers James Watt and Matthew Boulton that appear on the current note, the new note will feature drawings and words to honour Turing’s code breaking prowess. The note will feature many nods to Alan Turing (Credits: AP)
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