Alan Turing

Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British cryptographer, the computer pioneer

Legal name, Full name

"Alan Mathison Turing"

Born

▶ 1912; June 1912; June 23rd 1912; the United Kingdom; London;  …

England; Europe; the EU; Great Britain; the world; Greater London; Western Europe; the British Isles; the Northern Hemisphere; Northern Europe; Middlesex; Westminster; England and Wales; Maida Vale, England; Regent's Park and Kensington North; the Metropolitan Police area; the G8; the true knowledge good local retailer coverage area; US postal Group 5; the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; the British time region; Africa-Eurasia; Eurasia; the London telephone code area

Died

▶ 1954; June 1954; June 7th 1954; the United Kingdom; England;  …

Europe; the EU; Great Britain; Manchester; the world; Western Europe; Lancashire; the British Isles; Greater Manchester; Cheshire; the Northern Hemisphere; Northern Europe; the North-West of England; England and Wales; Wilmslow, England; UK postcode area M; Meriwether County, GA; Tatton; Greater Manchester; Manchester; Cheshire; the G8; the true knowledge good local retailer coverage area; US postal Group 5; the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; the British time region; Africa-Eurasia; Cheshire; Eurasia; Macclesfield; suicide; poisonous; Cyanide Poisoning

Occupation

Computer scientist

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Gender

male

Nationality

british, english

Residence

the United Kingdom, England

Researcher of

mathematics, computer science, logic

Educated

Princeton University; Cambridge University; King's College, Cambridge

Designer of

Turing machine

Expert of

Turing machine, Automatic Computing Engine, Turing Award

Last Name

"Turing"

First Name

"Alan"

Inventor of

computer

Main Occupation

scientist, mathematician, Computer Scientist

Doctoral Students

Robin Gandy

Doctoral Advisor

Alonzo Church

Age at Death

41 years, 11 months and 15 days old

Name-source of

Turing machine, Alan Turing Building, The Turing Institute

Class

▶ person; scientist; mathematician; designer; athlete;  …

person with the star sign cancer; human being, organisation or other legal person that is the designer of a computer; chess player; victim; male person; researcher; philosopher; inventor; Computer Scientist; academic; homosexual

Did

die (1954)

Theme of

Cryptonomicon, Breaking the Code

Influence of

Stephen Wolfram, Hilary Putnam, Martin Davis

Religion

atheist

Went to

the United States, Bletchley Park

Convicted for

a crime

Influenced

▶ Noam Chomsky, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Wolfram, Hilary Putnam, Gregory Chaitin,  …

Martin Davis, Ned Block

Born During

1910s

Died During

1950s

Attributes

▶ gay, atheist, male, dead, english,  …

british

Influence

Gregory Chaitin

Related Websites

▶ http://cie2012.eu, http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/TuringMachines.html, http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=81, http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=116, http://www.visualturing.org,  …

http://www.alanturing.net/, http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/turing_oncomputablenumbers_1936.pdf, http://bibnetwiki.org/wiki/Category:Alan_M._Turing_Paper, http://cs.swan.ac.uk/cie12, http://www.turingcentenary.eu, http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article010111.html, http://www.rkbexplorer.com/explorer/#display=person-{http://dblp.rkbexplorer.com/id/people-a27f18ebafc0d76ddb05173ce7b9873d-e0b388b7c1e0985b1371d73ee1fae8b5}, http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/turing.html, http://www.turingarchive.org, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing, http://www.alanturing.net, http://www.systemtoolbox.com/article.php?history_id=3, http://www.turing.org.uk

OBI

http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101036578/

Influences

Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church

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DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alan_Turing

Middle-name

"Mathison"

Birthday

the 23rd of June

Sexual Orientation

gay

Quotes

▶ "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."; "We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."; "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."; "Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."; "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.";  …

"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."; "A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."

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