Alan Turing was born in London on June 23, 1912, to Julius and Ethel Turing. Julius was a civil servant who worked in India for much of his career, but he and Ethel wanted to raise their children in Britain. Precocious and gifted as a child, Alan's parents enrolled him in the Sherbo...
Often considered the father of modern computer science, Alan Turing was famous for his work developing the first modern computers, decoding the encryption of German Enigma machines during the second world war, and detailing a procedure known as the Turing Test, forming the basis for artificial inte...
A detailed biography of Alan Turing that includes images, quotations and the main facts of his life. Key Stage 3. Second World War. GCSE World History. A-level. Last updated on 7th June, 2022
Turing then began working part-time for the Government Code and Cypher School. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Turing was given secret orders to report to Bletchley Park, an ageing mansion in Buckinghamshire. Little did he know it was to become the centre for British war intelligence...
It was these figures who laid the cornerstone for what George Dyson has called “Turing’s Cathedral” for like the great medieval cathedrals the computational megastructure in which all of us are now embedded was the product of generations of people dedicated to giving substance to the vision of...
June 23 marks the 100th birthday ofAlan Turing. If I had to name five people whose personal efforts led to the defeat of Nazi Germany, the English mathematician would surely be on my list. Turing's genius played a key role in helping the Allies win the Battle of the Atlantic—a naval...
Alan Kay, American computer scientist and winner of the 2003 A.M. Turing Award for his contributions to object-oriented programming languages, including Smalltalk, and to personal computing. He devised the Dynabook, a concept for a small tablet-style com
Like all the best scientific ideas, Turing’s theory was elegant and simple: any repeating natural pattern could be created by the interaction of two things — molecules, cells, whatever — with particular characteristics. Through a mathematical principle he called ‘reaction–diffusion’, these two...
Alan Jay Perlis was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was the first winner, in 1966, of the A.M. Turing Award, given by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and recognized internationally as the highest honour in computer scien