Alan Turing
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Weird Fact of the Day (that you probably didn't know)Wednesday, August 19: In addition to being the father of modern computing and helping win WWII for the Allies, genius mathematician Alan Turing had a personal best time for the marathon of 2 hours 46 minutes, and would sometimes run... In this article: Walt Disney, Buffalo, Oscar, NASA, H.G. Wells, Charlie Chaplin, and World War II |
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eWEEK Technology News | 5 days ago
Techies Give Thanks for 15 Trailblazers
...of the machine was strictly theoretical, today's computers are modern-day manifestations of a Turing machine. Unfortunately for Alan Turing, he lived in a time before modern culture, and before modern psychiatry existed, and his sexual...
In this article: Isaac Newton, Calculus, Mathematics, Physics, Speed of light, Quantum mechanics, and All rights reserved
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The Australian | November 17, 2009
Acknowledge suffering of forgotten kids
...and convenient way of gaining good publicity. Mark the odd words used by Mr Brown when apologising to the gay Bletchley scientist, Alan Turing, who killed himself in 1952. On behalf of the British government, said the PM: "I am very proud...
In this article: Australia, Kevin Rudd, Western Australia, and Best interests
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BBC News | November 17, 2009
Forgotten heroes
...help. There are heroic deaths which you do remember." This year, another name burst into the ranks of recognition. Mathematician Alan Turing, ranked fifth in the National Lottery's list, had been quite well known, the subject of a BBC drama...
In this article: Thomas Clarkson, Percy Shaw, Mary Rand, Dan Snow, Francis Drake, and Mary Seacole
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Guardian | November 17, 2009
Should politicians apologise for things for which they have no personal responsibility? Michael White
...Ireland secretary, apologised for both regions' roles in slavery too. More recently Brown apologised for the awful fate of Alan Turing, the great British mathematician and presiding genius of the Enigma code-breaking triumph of the...
In this article: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Atlantic, Australia, Irish potato, and Royal Navy
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No harm in saying sorry Hugh Muir
...month, Brown apologised on behalf of the nation for the "appalling" way second world war code-breaker Alan Turing was treated for being gay. Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a man. Two years...
In this article: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Kevin Rudd, Britain, and Australia
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Independent.co.uk - World | November 15, 2009
After 50 years, the 'lost innocents' shipped from home win apology
...Canberra, may go some way in expunging that lack of care. Earlier this year, Gordon Brown apologised for the "appalling" treatment of Alan Turing, the gay World War Two codebreaker who was convicted of "gross indecency" in 1952 and...
In this article: Australia, Kevin Rudd, Barnardo's, Sydney, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, and Western Australia
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Turing play stays on website indefinitely
The pioneering internet audio drama about the death of the Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing, is to remain available indefinitely on The Independent website. The 30-minute play, Turing's Test, starring The History Boys actor Samuel Barnett,...
In this article: The History Boys and Samuel Barnett
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Telegraph.co.uk - How about that | November 03, 2009
Drunk man picks fight with karate expert TV presenter
...punching one of them in the face before kneeing him in the groin after being attacked as he planned a live broadcast from the statue of Alan Turing in Sackville Gardens, following Gordon Brown's decision to grant the computer pioneer a...
In this article: Gordon Brown
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | October 26, 2009
I'm so sick of being sorry
...codes during the Second World War, was convicted of "gross indecency" after acknowledging to police he'd had sex with a man who later robbed him. It's the same charge that brought down Oscar Wilde. He was given the option of jail or chemical...
In this article: Oscar Wilde, Gordon Brown, Stolen Generations, Tax, Jenny Macklin, Agent Orange, Second World War, and The Salvation Army
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Log on to see the last days of tortured Turing
...an apple laced with cyanide after being convicted of gross indecency. The shame meant Turing was dropped from sensitive government work. Turing's Test, a Made In Manchester (MIM) production, examines the scientist's legacy in the field...
In this article: The Independent, Suicide, Desperate Romantics, Roger Alton, Ian McEwan, Samuel Barnett, Stephen Fry, and Richard Dawkins
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Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (pronounced: /ˈtjʊərɪŋ/, ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was influential in the development of computer science and provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine. In 1999 Time Magazine named Turing as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his role in the creation of the modern computer. His Turing test was a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence.
During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE.
Towards the end of his life Turing became interested in chemistry. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and he predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which were first observed in the 1960s.
- Birth Date:
- June 23, 1912
- Birthplace:
- Paddington, London, England
- Death Date:
- June 07, 1954
- Place of Death:
- Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
- Nationality:
- British
- Students:
- Robin Gandy
- Residence:
- United Kingdom
- University Attended:
- Field:
- Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, computer scientist
- Known for:
- Cryptanalysis of the Enigma
- Automatic Computing Engine
- Turing Award
- Turing Test
- Turing machine
- Halting problem
- Associated With:
- University of Manchester
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