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The Imitation Game

As a paid up geek who earns his living fighting with computers, it goes without saying that Alan Turing has always been a hero of mine.  But I didn't come to him through computers, but through Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.  Trying to understand the Voight-Kampff test, used by Deckard and the other Blade Runners to find Replicants, led me to the Turing Test and the amazing mind of Turing himself.  We know so much more now about the work at Bletchley Park and the machines that cracked Enigma that it is a shame that Turing himself has remained such an enigma himself.

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