Alan Turing Timeline

By peterbedrick

  • Alan Turing was born

    Alan Turing was born in London, England.

  • Turing goes to college to study Mathematics

    Alan Turing becomes an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge to study Mathematics

  • Turing gets a PhD in Mathematics

    Alan Turing goes to Princeton University in America to study mathematics and is awarded a PhD.

  • Turing joins the war

    Alan Turing is asked to join the Government Codes and Ciphers School and arrives at Bletchley Park the day after war is declared.

  • Turing develops one of the first computers ever

    Alan develops the Bombe, a device for decrypting the messages sent by the Germans using their Enigma machine.

  • Turing breaks German Naval Enigma system

    Alan Turing manages to break the more complex, German Naval Enigma system.

  • The war ends

    At the end of the war, Alan Turing is awarded the OBE for his wartime services.

  • Turing publishes a paper on a design of a computer

    Alan Turing publishes a paper with the first detailed design of a stored-program computer.

  • Turing is made deputy director of a Computing Lab

    Alan is made deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University.

  • Turing develops "the Turing Test"

    Alan Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" where he develops the Turing Test, a test that determines whether a computer is intelligent or not.

  • Turing is arrested for gross indecency

    Alan Turing is arrested for having sexual relations with another man which was against the law at the time. He was offered chemical treatments instead of jailtime which had a detrimental effect on him.

  • Turing DIes

    Alan Turing was found dead in his home from a cyanide poisoning. Some people suspected that he was murdered, but the official consensus is that he committed suicide.

  • An award is named after Alan Turing

    The annual Turing Award is established and given each year to a person for technical contributions to the computing community. It is generally viewed as important as the Nobel Prize.

  • Turing is pardoned

    Alan Turing is pardoned for having sexual relations with a man.