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Turing
Memorial
There are lots of excellent
sites on the web devoted to Alan Turing, such as the Turing Archive.
So rather than create a significant
Turing section on my website, I thought that I would
merely feature a snapshot of the Alan Turing Memorial, which
has not received much publicity. It stands in Sackville Park,
Manchester, and this photo shows the sculptor Glyn
Hughes.
You can find out more
about the memorial by visiting Glyn Hughes's website. You might also be
interested in a story told to me by Eddie Mizzi, who was
present at the statue's unveiling.
"At the unveiling," recalled
Eddie, "the blurb on a large board adjacent to the
sculpture said that the code on the bench IEKYF ROMSI
ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ represented FOUNDER OF COMPUTER
SCIENCE as encoded by an Enigma machine. But
that would mean that the U in computer had been
enciphered as U."
Eddie's point is that one the
features/flaws of the Enigma is that no letter can be
enciphered as itself. If anybody knows anything more about
this apparent error, then please let me
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