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Alan Turing
Alan Turing was born on June 23rd, 1912 in Maida Vale, London. Alan was a British computer scientist, mathematition and cryptanalyst. -
Schooling
Alan is enrolled in St Michael's day school, he did not do well and was sent to another school where he learned to play chess. -
More School
Alan attends Sherborne School in Dorset where he meets his friend Christopher Morcom. Turing and Morcom had a special relationship as Turing called Morcom his "Special Inspiration" -
A loss of a dear friend
Alans good friend Christopher Morcom dies of tuberculosis. Turing is devistated and cannot believe it. This is thought to be Turings inspiration because he vowes to do what he does in order to not let his friend down. -
School Continues
Turing gets a scholarship and goes to study Mathematics at King’s College, Cambridge. -
Accomplishment
After figuring out the central limit theorem Alan is named a fellow at King’s. -
Publishing his work
Turing published a paper On Computable Numbers and an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem). The concepts in this paper would later be known as the Turing Machine, but at the time he called it the Universal Machine. -
School
Turing is awarded a PHD at Princeton University, his dissertation was called Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals and introduced original logic and relative computing. -
Job
Alan begins a part time job at the Government Code and Cypher School. -
The Bombe
Woriking with Gordon Welchman, develops the Bombe, a device for decrypting the messages sent by the Germans using their Enigma machine. -
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Breaking Enigma
Turing and his friends manage to break a complicated and difficult German Naval Enigma system, with this Turing significantly helped out the allies. -
OBE
After the war was over Turing was awarded an OBE for assisting in the war. -
Turing Test
Alan publishes a paper called Computing Machinery and Intelligence' in which he develops the Turing Test. This is when we learned about artificial intellegence and if computers could really think like humans. -
Trouble
Alan is arrested for gross indecency for commiting homosexual acts with another man and admitting it. He lost his security clearence and could no longer work. -
Chess Machine
Truing invents a machine that can play chess, though it takes nearly half an hour to make a move it still works. The machine lost to Turing’s colleague Alick Glennie, but won against Champernowne’s wife. -
Death
On June 8th Alan was found dead by his maid and his apparent death was by poisening. They found a half eaten apple laced with cyanide.
