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Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing 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. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Born in Maida Vale, London, Turing was raised in southern England. He graduated at King's College, Cambridge, with a degree in mathematics. Whilst he was a fellow at Cambridge, he published a proof demonstrating that some purely mathematical yes–no questions can never be answered by computation and defined a Turing machine, and went on to prove that the halting problem for Turing machines is undecidable. In 1938, he obtained his PhD from the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. For a time he led Hut 8, the section that was responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. Here, he devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Axis powers in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic. After the war, Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), one of 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. Despite these accomplishments, Turing was never fully recognised in Britain during his lifetime because much of his work was covered by the Official Secrets Act. Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment with DES, a procedure commonly referred to as chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as a suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning. Following a public campaign in 2009, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an on behalf of the British government for "the appalling way [Turing] was treated". Queen Elizabeth II granted a posthumous pardon in 2013. The term "Alan Turing law" is now used informally to refer to a 2017 law in the United Kingdom that retroactively pardoned men cautioned or convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts. Turing has an extensive legacy with statues of him and many things named after him, including an annual award for computer science innovations. He appears on the current Bank of England £50 note, which was released on 23 June 2021, to coincide with his birthday. A 2019 BBC series, as voted by the audience, named him the greatest person of the 20th century. (Wikipedia).
Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius
Saturday 23 June 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and father of modern computing. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of computer science who possessed one of the greatest
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Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius [2012]
Description: Saturday 23 June 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and father of modern computing. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of computer science who possessed one of
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Hank introduces us to that great mathematical mind, Alan Turing, who, as an openly gay man in the early 20th century faced brutal prejudice that eventually led to his suicide, despite being a genius war hero who helped the Allies defeat the Nazis. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.fac
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Campaign for the Turing Tenner
This year is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing. Turing was a mathematician, father of computer science, and WWII code breaker. To celebrate his life there is a campaign to put a picture of Turing on the back of the next ten pound note. This would be amazing if it happened. UK citiz
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What is The Alan Turing Institute?
Take a look at what it means to be the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence (AI). From tackling cutting edge, real-world challenges to training the next generation of leaders in data science and AI. Find out more at turing.ac.uk About the Turing The Alan Turing
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Alan Turing and Number Theory - Yuri Matiyasevich (St. Petersburg) [2012]
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People of Science with Brian Cox - Dame Wendy Hall on Alan Turing
Computer Scientist Wendy Hall talks to Brian Cox about one of her personal heroes, Alan Turing, and discusses how his discoveries influenced so much in the modern world. Find out more about Alan Turing in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/peopl
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The Turing Test - Computerphile
What was The Imitation Game? It inspired the name for the recent Alan Turing's movie but just what was it? Professor Brailsford explains how Turing may have been having a joke on us. Turing Machines Explained: http://youtu.be/dNRDvLACg5Q How intelligent is AI?: http://youtu.be/hcoa7OMAmR
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How Alan Turing Proved There's No 'Theory Of Everything' For Math
The World Science Festival partnered with the Museum of the Moving Image to present a special screening of The Imitation Game, the new dramatic feature film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician racing to crack the Enigma code during World War II. But Tu
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Alan Turing and The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game comes out tonight, but before its release, Hank got to talk with the film's director Morten Tyldum and screenwriter Graham Moore about bringing one of the world's most brilliant mathematicians to film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5CjKEFb-sM Hosted by: Hank Green
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The Mathematical Code Hidden In Nature
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THIS 1936 Paper Theorized the FIRST Computer EVER, by Alan Turing
In 1936, Alan Turing wrote a paper that changed the course of history, titled "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem", first introducing the Universal Turing Machine and laying the theoretical foundation of modern computing . It revolutionized the field of
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Lenore Blum - Alan Turing and the other theory of computing and can a machine be conscious?
Abstract Most logicians and theoretical computer scientists are familiar with Alan Turing’s 1936 seminal paper setting the stage for the foundational (discrete) theory of computation. Most however remain unaware of Turing’s 1948 seminal paper which introduces the notion of condition, sett
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Alan Turing: Crash Course Computer Science #15
Today we’re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie modern computation - the father of computer science himself: Alan Turing. Now normally we try to avoid “Great Man" history in Crash Course because tru
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Can you tell the difference between AI and a human? | Michael Wooldridge | Big Think
Can you tell the difference between AI and a human?, with Michael Wooldridge Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink/videos Up next ►► Walter Isaacson on Alan Turing, Intelligent Machines and "The Imitation Game" https://youtu.be/rz_99PBycSo The limits to
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Walter Isaacson on Alan Turing, Intelligent Machines and "The Imitation Game" | Big Think
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Can A Chatbot Really Convince People It's Human?
A chatbot called "Eugene Goostman" managed to pass the Turing Test, making it the first program to convince humans that it's human! What is the Turing Test, and what does this mean for artificial intelligence? Trace takes a look at the history of this test, and why some are skeptical that
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Turing Centennial Conference: About Alan Turing (in Hebrew)
About Alan Turing (in Hebrew) Presented by Prof. Amiram Yehudai, Tel Aviv University Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda
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