jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: "the imitation game" tells how british mathematician alan turing an early computer to crack the german code and helped allied forces win world war two. >> well the judge gave me a choice. >> brown: it also shows how turing, played by benedict cumberbatch, suffered under britain's anti-homosexual laws in the 1950s, and was forced to take hormone therapy as punishment. >> yes, chemical castration, to cure me of my homosexual predilections. >> brown: alan turing died at age 41, an apparent suicide. in november, cumberbatch told me how turing's story had moved him. >> the reality of then what happened to him in the 50s hits you and, you're winded with emotion of this injustice this man who was served by the very government and democracy it saved from fascism with estrogen injections to cure his homosexuality, which was punishable by either that or imprisonment. and i was really upset and then angry. >> graham moore, the imitation game! >> brown: last night graham moore, the film's screenwriter, won the oscar for best adapted screenplay. moore, who late

alan turing comes up with an innovative approach we referred to -- or he referred to as assumed text. they were able to find radio stations that sent out messages every day at the same time and because of the nation -- the nature of the mission, they were able to get the first sentence of the transmission. station 26 on the coast of france comes on here every day at 10:00 and the first sentence is the weather today will be -- it was concerned with putting out weather reports to german ships and some rains. with that, you get a head start and you can begin the process. he's able to design a marvelous device referred to as the bomb. this is a giant guessing machine that help to sort out the other patterns and sequence. i don't want to make this sound easy. it was not stop at eight to 12 hours in the core of analysts linguists and many more support personnel. here's the bottom line -- by the end of the day with some exceptions, they were able to determine the rotor settings. they were intercepting message all day long and they were able to discern the future tactics of the german militar

the two of them, and where you personally leave artificial intelligence is headed. >> i am on the alan turing side. turing never publish anything until it was perfectly proved. he spoke in perfect, complete sentences. very much the other way. stuttered, and said what he thought. very different characters. that is the tragedy of von neumann's death. he did not want to bullish anything until he had a complete theory. you never got there. turing that at 41, von neumann at 53. >> is what we are seeing the approximation of artificial intelligence as they might have thought of it? >> i think it is awfully close to what turing was looking at. people remember his 1950 paper the imitation game, and his 1936 paper, the universal machine. the one that is equally important but less remembered is his 1938 phd dissertation at princeton that was on non-determinate machines that he called oracle machines. every once in a while, they take a jump like we do, in thinking. we put it together, and that is intelligence. turing believed he had proved a machine that never makes mistakes could never be intelligent. g

i want to talk about von neumann, but let's talk about alan turing for a moment and specifically, the title of the book and how you came to call this book "turing's cathedral." >> yes, ok. for context, imagine it's a hundred years ago. his wife is five months pregnant. young alan is about to come on the scene. one of the good things is that the left very few papers. you can read everything that he he wrote. i read everything that alan turing wrote, and in 1950 he wrote this tremendously famous paper, as famous as his 1936 paper on universal competition. it was a paper about artificial intelligence. you could see the critic coming , intelligent design and you are playing god and you shouldn't go there. he made the statement then when we create these intelligent machines, we are no more grating souls then we are in the process of creating children. we are creating mansions for the souls that only he can create i . i love that. i love that phrase. when i went to 2005, i went to google. that was 60 years since this project began. the engineers there gave me a very deep inside to her as to

for computer genius alan turing and "the imitation game." >> how do you feel about the words oscar buzzh it means more people will be interested in seeing the film, more people will get to hear alan turing's story, and that makes me very happy. >> my machine will work. >> reporter: based on a true story, cumberbatch's character builds a machine that deciphers the nazi secret code during world war ii. >> he spearheaded this intelligence effort that winston churchill was wise enough to recognize as being the most important asset to winning the war at that stage. >> greatest encryption device in history and the germans use it for all major communications. >> reporter: winning the war didn't prevent turing from a devasting fate. after british authorities discovered he was gay he was charged with acts of indecency and sentenced to chemical castration. >> the court case was very public, he was shamed he was in the papers. he took his own life at the age of 41. >> 5 minutes 34 seconds. >> you said to do it under 6. >> reporter: cumberbatch's career and popularity took off with his role in "she

i hope and know that people are getting aware of alan turing and he is getting the rightful place in good luck, and i hope that you have a speech written in some way. >> i will. >> and i don't want to jinx you, but let's hope that we will say best of luck. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, morten tylden. >> and the countdown has begun for the biggest night, and we hope that you will join me, and kayla pereira beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern and after the awards, we have the all access pass to the a-list parties and the memorable moments. "and the winner is" special starts right after the show at 11:00 p.m. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don't know exactly. kid: what if you're not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn't work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab my lenses have a sunset mode. and an early morning mode. and a partly sunny mode. and an outside... to clear inside mode. transitions® signature™ adaptive lenses...

that gets back to alan turing. are we just machines?d in the size of little parts of his brain the explanation for einstein's genius? i don't think so. i think we are not machines. we are humans. as much as they carve up the brain and slice it over the years trying to find the secret. i said earlier on, you have to look for natural explanations of things that that does not mean a drum microscope you confined genius by looking at the cells of a brain and know he never failed math. he was very good at math, almost as good as he needed to be. when he did general relativity he laments the fact that his math isn't a little bit better because tensor calculus is starting to stop him but he get some good friends to help him. he did fine in math but it is a good miss to have because he is doing a thing called uconn learn anything. i urge our viewers you can't learn anything. uconn learn math you can learn relativity, you can learn about da vinci, and one of the videos about inspiring people that you cannot learn anything, einstein as a little ba

by winston churchill, there are any number of brilliant people there, not the least of which was alan turing, he comes up with an innovative purchase that he referred to as assumed text, they were able to find radio stations in the third reich and occupied europe that sent out messages every day at the time the enigma messages were sent, at the same time. and because of the nature of the mission of the radio stations they were able to guess the first sentence of the transmission. perfect example, station 26 on the coast of france, comes on the air river day at 7:00 a.m. and the first sentence off the tower is the weather today off the coast of france will be. why, it was concerned with putting out weather reports to the german ships and submarines at sea. with that, you get a head start. you can begin the process, and he was able to design a device that was referred to as a bombe. this is a giant calculating machine, a guessing machine that helps to sort out the other patterns and sequences. i don't want to make this sound easy, it was not. it took between 8 to 12 hours and a core of analyst

graham moore for "the imitation game" based on the book "alan turing: the enigma" by andrew hodges. paul thomas anderson for "inherent vice" based on the novel by thomas pynchon. anthony mccarten for "the theory of everything" based on the book "travelling to infinity: my life with stephen" by jane hawking. damien chazelle for "whiplash" based on the short film "whiplash." and the oscar goes to -- graham moore, "the imitation game." >> this is the first oscar and nomination for graham moore. >> thank you so much to the academy and to oprah for this. i need to shower my love and kisses on everyone who is apart of this family. norton keira, benedict, our entire cast. maria, i love you guys so much. thank you for this film. i'm so indebted to you for it. here's the thing. alan never got to look out at these faces, and i do. and that's the most unfair thing i think i've ever heard. so in this brief time here what i want to use it to do is to say this. when i was 16 years old, i tried to kill myself. because i felt weird and i felt different and i felt like i did not belong. and now i'm

graham moore for "the imitation game" based on the book "alan turing: the enigma" by andrew hodges. paul thomas anderson for "inherent vice" based on the novel by thomas pynchon. anthony mccarten for "the theory of everything" based on the book "travelling to infinity: my life with stephen" by jane hawking. damien chazelle for "whiplash" based on the short film "whiplash." and the oscar goes to -- graham moore, "the imitation game." >> this is the first oscar and nomination for graham moore. >> thank you so much to the academy and to oprah for this. i need to shower my love and kisses on everyone who is apart of this family. norton keira, benedict, our entire cast. maria, i love you guys so much. thank you for this film. i'm so indebted to you for it. here's the thing. alan never got to look out at these faces, and i do. and that's the most unfair thing i think i've ever heard. so in this brief time here what i want to use it to do is to say this. when i was 16 years old, i tried to kill myself. because i felt weird and i felt different and i felt like i did not belong. and now i'm

his book is a reference to alan turing who is portrayed in the film "the imitation game. >> in about 15 minutes, our live coverage of the national governors association winter meeting continues with the epa administrator, gina mccarthy. she will be part of a session on energy and water security. until then, we bring you part of this morning's "washington journal." we want to welcome adam green the cofounder of the progressive change campaign committee which is what? guest: it is a million member national grass roots organization, we do about half electoral work and our main focus is economic populism issues and democracy issues. in fact we coined the phrase, elizabeth warren wing of politics. our members chipped in over $1 million in small dollar donations. and we have been a champion of some of her issues. host: we love political paraphernalia. she insist that is she is not running. do you think she might? guest: never say never. and she said that herself. right now i don't think she is but our organization's focus is trying to incentivize all presidential candidates including hilla

the issue has gained more attention since the release of" the imitation game," a film about alan turing. he was the british mathematician credited with breaking nazi codes during world war ii but was later prosecuted in 1952 for" homosexual acts." he killed himself two years later. american intelligence officials are for the first time acknowledging the c.i.a.'s role in the 2008 killing of a top hezbollah official. they told the "washington post" that american operatives helped build the bomb that israeli intelligence agents later planted inside the spare tire of a car driven by imad mughniyah. he was hezbollah's international operations chief and had allegedly been involved in a number of terror attacks including one against the u.s. embassy in beirut and another against the israeli embassy in argentina. some legal scholars question the legality of the operation, saying it might violate international laws prohibiting what is known as "killing by perfidy." the federal government has issued another massive recall because of faulty airbags. some of the two million cars recalled today by t

. >> alan turing. >> the subject of the imitation game, headed by benedict cumberbatch.ryptographer led the team that decoded the german enigma machine, saving thousands of lives. >> when your agent called, did you know who he was? >> no. you start with this script. it is witty, intelligent. and you get drawn into this mystery and who this man is and breaking the code. and then the tragedy of who he is. and of his demise. the emotional impact of the justice that he was served and what happened to him, the excruciating reality, it is magnified when you realize, i did not know this. i thought, i have to tell the story. i want to be part of this film because this man is a hero. he is the father of computer science. >> you need me, a lot more than i need you. >> i like solving problems. and enigma is the most difficult problem in the world. >> and the characteristic of him that you wanted to get at? >> he was part of his world. he felt everything so keenly. he wanted to be part of this the people he loved and worked with. it was his life love with the boy that he fell in lov

. >> jimmy: and the character you play, the person you play, alan turing, is a guy, a man whose nameot of people didn't know before. >> he's known amongst the intelligence community, amongst the gods of the computer world in silicon valley, he's known amongst lgbt groups. he's been an icon for many people, a very important person for many people for a while. what we've hoped to have done with this movie is to basically broaden an audience and an understanding of this extraordinary man who, you know, at a very young age invented computer science and the idea of computing from the earlier ideas he developed. during the war he put those in practice with the codebreakers at bletchley park and helped to crack the enigma code, which brought about some say a two-year early cessation to the second world war and saving millions of lives, so became a war hero. afterwards in the '50s was persecuted once he was found to be a homosexual. he was prosecuted and given the choice of two years in prison or two years of chemical castration. this man was utterly wronged by the very government and democr

one of the things about that alan turing movie, in the end he's a human.e has his own creativity. and so the end of the innovators, there's a chapter about this. i also did a lecture the jefferson lecture last year which is the importance of connecting the humanityies to the sciences. why? because it's about the importance of connecting humanness to our machines instead of letting our machines sort of run away without us. a lot of people fearing artificial intelligence singularity, the robots taking over. but as long as we understand our connection our interfacing with our machines, i think our creativity our art our moral sensibilities, those are the things we have to understand. and to understand the moral aesthetics and sensibility, it really helps to understand the humanities and the arts. >> host: athe tila bay posts on our facebook page, of your books which do you find teaches most about learning about culture or a culture? >> guest: well, the benjamin franklin invents a new form of culture, a culture in which there's a tolerance of people different