Alan Turing - Wikipedia
WebAlan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ ˈ tj ʊər ɪ ŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.
Alan Turing | Biography, Facts, Computer, Machine ... - Britannica
WebApr 12, 2024 · Alan Turing was a British mathematician and logician, a major contributor to mathematics, cryptanalysis, computer science, and artificial intelligence. He invented the universal Turing machine, an abstract computing machine that encapsulates the fundamental logical principles of the digital computer.
Alan Turing - Education, Movie & Quotes - Biography
WebApr 2, 2014 · Who Was Alan Turing? Alan Turing was a brilliant British mathematician who took a leading role in breaking Nazi ciphers during WWII.
Alan Turing - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WebJun 3, 2002 · Alan Turing (1912–1954) never described himself as a philosopher, but his 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” is one of the most frequently cited in modern philosophical literature.
Alan Turing | The father of modern computer science | New Scientist
WebAlan Turing. 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954. Alan Turing helped crack Nazi codes and established the field of artificial intelligence. By Jacob Aron. Alan Turing was one of the most...
Alan Turing - Computer Designer, Codebreaker, Enigma
WebComputer designer. Computer. designer. In 1945, the war over, Turing was recruited to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London to create an electronic computer. His design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first complete specification of an electronic stored-program all-purpose digital computer.
Alan Turing: The codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives' - BBC
WebJun 19, 2012 · Alan Turing - the Bletchley Park codebreaker - would have been 100 years old on 23 June had he lived to the present day. To mark the occasion the BBC commissioned a week-long series of articles...
Alan Mathison Turing - MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
WebJun 7, 2011 · He defined a computable number as real number whose decimal expansion could be produced by a Turing machine starting with a blank tape. He showed that π was computable, but since only countably many real numbers are computable, most real numbers are not computable.
The Turing Digital Archive | The Turing Digital Archive
WebAlan Turing (1912-54) Turing is best-known for helping decipher the code created by German Enigma machines in the Second World War, and for being one of the founders of computer science and artificial intelligence.
About Alan Turing | The Turing Digital Archive - University of …
WebAbout Alan Turing. Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June 1912, the son of Julius Mathison Turing, a civil servant in India, and (Ethel) Sara Turing, the daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway.
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