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Alan Mathison Turing (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science.
With the Turing test, Turing made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence: whether it will ever be possible to say that a machine is conscious and can think. He provided an influential formalisation of the concept of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, formulating the now widely accepted "Turing" version of the Church–Turing thesis, namely that any practical computing model has either the equivalent or a subset of the capabilities of a Turing machine. During World War II, Turing worked at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German Naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine which could find settings for the Enigma machine.
After the war, he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, creating one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, although it was never actually built. In 1947 he moved to the University of Manchester to work, largely on software, on the Manchester Mark I then emerging as one of the world's earliest true computers.
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Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) - British mathematician, cryptographer, and one of the key inventors of the modern computer. After his profound contributions to helping win World War II, he was persecuted for his homosexuality by his own government, and driven to suicide. Maintained by Turing biographer Andrew Hodges: extensive resources and links, online versions of several long essays on Turing.
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Alan M. Turing - Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Andrew Hodges.
Alan Mathison Turing - Undergraduate biographical essay by John M. Kowalik.
Alan Turing - Biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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Alan Turing - Biographical entry in the FOLDOC.
Alan Turing - Encyclopedia biography from Wikipedia.
Alan Turing Archive - Archive and historical records pertaining to the work of computing pioneer Alan Turing.
Alan Turing Papers - Collection record of Turings papers at Kings College, Cambridge.
Alan Turing: The Biography Project - Biography, bibliography and links.
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Alan Turing broke the enigma cipher used by Nazi Germany in world war 2. ]
Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers - Profile of the groundbreaking Cambridge mathematician. [BusinessWeek]
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On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem - Turing's paper which discusses the halting problem in the context of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. HTML.
Meta Description: [ On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem) by A.M. Turing - entry page at abelard.org ]
The Church-Turing Thesis - Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
Turing Digital Archive - Digital archive of items relating to Alan Turing.
Turing Machine - Article on Turing Machines from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
Wired Archive: Alan Turing - Stories involving Turing.
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