- Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist
Born: | 23 June 1912 Comment | When did Alan Turing die? / Died | 07 June 1954 | How many years did Alan Turing live? / Lived | 41 years | Zodiac sign: | Cancer |
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Alan Turing facts
- He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer
- Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence
- During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre
- For a time he led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis
- He devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombe method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine
- Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic; it has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over fourteen million lives
- After the war, he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the ACE, among the first designs for a stored-program computer
- In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory at the Victoria University of Manchester, where he helped develop the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology
- He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, first observed in the 1960s
- Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts, when it was still a criminal act in the UK
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