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My review of The Imitation Game
Considering my fascination with the history of computing, it took me much longer to see this movie than I had expected. I suspect if you haven’t seen it by now you probably don’t plan on doing so, however I’m going to provide my first ever movie review for this site.
The Imitation Game is the story of Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician who is considered the father of computer science and was responsible for developing the Bombe, a gigantic machine whose sole purpose was to crack the Enigma code used by the Nazis in World War II.
The Enigma codes were generated anew on a daily basis using an Enigma machine, and although I hardly wish to credit the Nazis with anything, the concept was brilliant. By adjusting the codes daily, even if the day’s code was cracked, that knowledge would be useless the following day. It would require something quite advanced in order to break an ever changing code, especially in the 1940s.
A Nazi Enigma Machine
