In this brief video for bigthink.com biographer Walter Isaacson compares Alan Turing’s computing philosophy with that of Ada Lovelace a hundred years prior. Turing, the subject of the new film The Imitation Game, is also featured prominently in Isaacson’s new book The Innovators.

Walter Isaacson is a renowned biographer, CEO of the Aspen Institute, and previously the chairman of CNN and managing editor of TIME magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Steve Jobs, and most recently The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.

Here is a link to his brief but substantial briefing on Alan Turing and the Imitation Game.