The Enigma Code

During the Second World War, the German army used a complex method of message encryption
to communicate between its various military units. The German army achieved this encryption
through a machine called Enigma. All the allies of England and the United States knew this fact. It
is at this moment, in which the intelligence services of England initiated a project that would
change the course of the war. The English government began a process of recruiting professionals
in different areas related to cryptography, mathematics, linguistics and others. During this process,
one of the interviewed was the British Alan Turing a crypt-analyst, mathematician and pioneer
computer scientist.

He was at the head of a team of specialists who would develop an electro-mechanic machine that
would be able to decipher the messages of the German Enigma machine. It was an arduous
process, full of great tension since they worked against the clock. Finally, Alan Turing and his team
successfully developed this project and created a computer called Bombe, an electro-mechanic
machine that was about half the size of this room.

Its use allowed to shorten the war between two and four years because many of the strategies of
the German army could be unveiled, and then the allies achieved to avoid the advance of the
German troops and save many live.

Because the project led by Alan Turing was top secret, it was not until the end of the Second
World War that the world could know about this important invention that saved millions of lives
and shortened the duration of the war.

The English police did not know about this project and had started an investigation on Alan Turing
when the war had not yet ended, and he had just completed his invention. Because no causes
were found for incarceration, charges were filed against Alan Turing for "Indecent Conduct" and
he was convicted of being a homosexual.

He was subject to chemical castration. The whole process of condemnation and imprisonment
affected him deeply until one day he was poisoned by an apple with cyanide. There are several
hypotheses about his death, but none was officially established.

Today, his legacy remains as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Wanting to pay tribute to this brilliant scientist, Steve Job created the Apple logo that we all know
today, the little bitten apple.