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Birth of Alan Turing
Born in London, England -
Undergraduate student at Cambridge
Turing went to Cambridge and studied mathematics -
On Computable Numbers
An influential paper in computer science that discussed whether a computer could calculate any mathematics problem -
Developed the Bombe
The Bombe was the first machine put to use by the allies to decrypt German code, and was developed by Mr. Turing himself -
Began work at the National Physics Laboratory
Worked on what he thought could be the first universal computing machine -
Left the National Physics Laboratory
Openly disliked the practice of compartmentalization and believed that they would never achieve the creation of a universal computing machine -
Computing machinery and intelligence
Turing published this paper which described in detail how he would go about determining whether a machine could think. It is this paper that is used to determine how to execute a Turing test. -
Intelligent Machinery
Turing gave a talk on his theories of intelligent machinery. This paper is best known for its discussion of what we now refer to as a 'Turing Test' -
The chemical basis of morphogenesis
Published his paper discussing the ways in which chemistry affected the shape that living organisms take on -
Arrested and castrated for homosexuality
Turing was openly homosexual in a nation where homosexuality is illegal, and he was eventually arrested and castrated -
Death of Alan Turing
While it has been suggested that Turing was assassinated because of his knowledge of WW2, it is generally held that he committed suicide by cyanide poisoning. -
Turing's contributions to computer science released
Because much of his work was related to wartime efforts, Turing was not acknowledged as an influence in computer science until well after his death -
Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, apologizes for treatment of Turing
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Controversial first passing of the Turing Test
A chatbot which emulates a 13 year old boy was said to have convinced 33% of judges that they were speaking with a real human. However many experts in the field believe that our standards for passing the Turing test should be higher -
AI is better at classifying images than humans
In 2015, a machine's error rate when it came to the classification of images became lower than a human's on average
