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Born
Alan Turing was born in the year 1912 on the 23rd of June. He was born in the English residential district of Maida Vale. His father and mother were Julius Mathison Turing and Ethel Sara Turing (Copeland). -
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Sherborne School
Turing began attending Sherborne School in 1926, when he was 13 years old. The teachers at Sherborne were not extremely fond of his predisposition towards science and math, because those subjects were not part of the classics that were more emphasized ("Alan Turing"). -
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King's College
Alan Turing studied Mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was named a fellow of this college when he was twenty two years old. -
Central Limit Theorem
In his dissertation from King's College, he was able to prove the Central Limit Theorem. -
On Computable Numbers and an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Turing published a paper titled "On Computable Numbers and an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" in January 1936. The original idea for the Turing Machine is described in this paper. -
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Princeton
During his time here, Turing studied under Alonzo Church. In addition to mathematics he started studying cryptology. -
Government Code and Cypher School
Alan Turing begins part time work at the Government Code and Cypher School. This was a British code-breaking center that was responsible for producing Ultra intelligence. He was at one point a leader for Hut 8, a division that performed cryptanalysis of the German Naval Fleet. -
The Bombe
Alan Turing developed this device with Gordon Welchman. Its' purpose was decryption of messages the Germans sent using their Enigma machines. -
Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Post World War II, Turing was given an OBE for his war time services to Britain. -
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ACE (Automatic Computing Engine)
When Turing lived in London he worked on designing ACE, which was the first ever complete and detailed design for a stored-program computer. -
Appointed Deputy Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory
Turing was made the deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University. -
Manchester Mark 1
While deputy director of the Manchester Computer Laboratory, He worked on software for the Manchester Mark 1 here, which was an early stored-computer program. -
Computing Machinery and Intelligence & the Turing Test
Alan Turing talks about the concept of Artificial Intelligence in this paper. He also introduces his concept of the Turing Test. -
The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis
This Turing article describes how patterns found in nature can occur naturally from a homogeneous, uniform state. -
Death
Alan Turing's tragic death was on June 8th, 1954. The ruled cause of death was cyanide poisoning, and it was an alleged suicide. It has been debated that his death was accidental, rather than intentional (Copeland).
