Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (June 23 1912 - June 7 1954) played a huge role in cracking German codes during WW 2, and founded computer science.

Alan Turing

Some general sites and pages about Alan Turing.

  1. 1 AlanTuring.net 3
  2. 2 Alan Turing 4
  3. 3 The Turing Digital Archive home page 0
  4. 4 Alan Turing 1
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Books about Alan Turing

  1. 1 Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges 2
  2. 2 Pioneer of the Information Age 0
  3. 3 Alan M. Turing by Sara Turing (mother) 0
  4. 4 His Work and Impact 0
  5. 5 Alan Turing Decoded 0
  6. 6 The Essential Turing 0
  7. 7 AlanTuring.net Books on Turing 0

Computer Pioneer

He invented the computer as a by-product of ‘On Computable Numbers’, after the war he went on to design pioneering computers and software.

  1. 1 Alan Turing recalled as computer pioneer 1
  2. 2 why the tech world's hero should be a household name 0
  3. 3 Is he really the father of computing? 0
  4. 4 Turing, Father of the Modern Computer 0

Biography

Alan Turing, b. June 23, 1912, d. June 7, 1954. He played a huge rôle in cracking German codes during WW II, & founded computer science & AI

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  2. 2 Amazon.com 0
  3. 3 He Should Be Alive Today 1
  4. 4 The Enigma (Andrew Hodges) 0
  5. 5 AlanTuring.net Bio of Alan Turing 0

Movies and Documentaries

Some are good, some are downright Hollywood lies - like ‘The Imitation Game’.

  1. 1 - YouTube 3
  2. 2 Codebreaker Film Trailer 3
  3. 3 Alan Turing Film Teaser 1
  4. 4 A New Documentary about Alan Turing 0
  5. 5 TuringFilm.com 0
  6. 6 - YouTube 0
  7. 7 Celebrating the life of a genius 0
  8. 8 QI on the Enigma machine, Alan Turing, and early computing 0

1950: Computing Machinery and Intelligence

The Imitation Game: I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms

  1. 1 Loebner.net 2
  2. 2 » Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” The Evolution of Computing and its Impact on History 1
  3. 3 I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE 0
  4. 4 Computing Machinery and Intelligence 0

1950: Turing Test

You should regard a hidden computer as ‘intelligent’ if you have a conversation with it that makes you believe it might be a human.

  1. 1 Turing test 1
  2. 2 What is the Turing Test? 0
  3. 3 The Turing Test 0
  4. 4 Alan Turing Scrapbook 0
  5. 5 The truth about the Turing Test 0
  6. 6 The Turing Test 0
  7. 7 What is the Turing test? And are we all doomed now? 0

1912-1928: Early Years

If he is to stay at public school, he must aim at becoming educated. If he is to be solely a Scientific Specialist, he is wasting his time..

  1. 1 Alan Turing Scrapbook 2
  2. 2 Alan Turing 1
  3. 3 Awesome Stories 0

1939: Riemann Zeta function Machine

Alan Turing developed a method for verifying the Riemann hypothesis for the initial zeros. He started building a machine to compute them.

  1. 1 Alan Turing and the Riemann Zeta Function 1
  2. 2 Turing's zeta-function machine, 1939 0
  3. 3 Turing and the Riemann zeta function 1
  4. 4 Turing and the Riemann zeta function 0

1952: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis

Describes the way in which natural patterns such as stripes, spots and spirals may arise naturally out of a homogeneous, uniform state.

  1. 1 Turing pattern 2
  2. 2 Impact of Alan Turing's approach to morphogenesis 0
  3. 3 Testing Turing’s theory of morphogenesis in chemical cells 0
  4. 4 One of Alan Turing's Predictions Came True in the Weirdest Way Possible 0
  5. 5 Alan Turing and Animal Patterns (morphogenesis) 0
  6. 6 Philip Ball discusses Alan Turing's research on morphogenesis 0
  7. 7 The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis 1

1936: On Computable Numbers

This article set the limits of computer science. It defined the Turing Machine, a model for all computations.

  1. 1 On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem 1
  2. 2 Computable number 0
  3. 3 On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem 1
  4. 4 Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond eBook 0

1939 - 1942: Codebreaking @ Bletchley Park

If U-boat Enigma had not been broken, and the war had continued for another 2 or 3 years, several million more people would have died.

  1. 1 Alan Turing’s Code-Breaking Papers Discovered Stuffed In Roof Holes At Bletchley Park 1
  2. 2 Bletchley Park 0
  3. 3 Roll of Honour 0
  4. 4 Alan Turing Scrapbook 0
  5. 5 Virtual Bletchley Park 1
  6. 6 The Enigma and the Bombe 0
  7. 7 Bombe 0
  8. 8 Bombe 0

1954: Was his death a suicide?

“He was found dead, poisoned by an apple laced with cyanide.” THE APPLE WAS NOT TESTED FOR CYANIDE which he used for electrolysis experiment

  1. 1 Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable' 0
  2. 2 Was Alan Turing murdered? New book claims he didn't kill himself 0
  3. 3 Did Alan Turing Really Commit Suicide? Inquest Findings Questioned 0
  4. 4 Was Alan Turing’s death an accident? 0
  5. 5 Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable' 0

1936: Turing Machines

A Turing machine is an imaginary device that writes symbols on a tape according to a table of rules. It’s a minimal but complete computer.

  1. 1 Turing machine 0
  2. 2 Peter Suber, "Turing Machines I" 1
  3. 3 Math ∩ Programming 2
  4. 4 Turing Machines (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 0
  5. 5 Turing Machines Explained 0
  6. 6 AlanTuring.net What is a Turing machine? 1
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