The Imitation Game

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. 

Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal.

An introduction to this film will be given bySteven Kelk, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of Knowledge Engineering (DKE)at Maastricht University, where he works within the Networks and Strategic Optimization (NSO) cluster.