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Alan Turing

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

June 23, 1912

Died

June 07, 1954

Website

http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/

Genre

Science, Computing

Influences

Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, John von Neumann, Richard Hamming ...more

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Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, incl ...more

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	Computing machinery and intelligence 4.15 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 1950 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Essential Turing by Alan Turing, B. Jack Copeland (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mechanical Intelligence: Collected Works of A.M. Turing by Alan Turing (Editor), D.C. Ince (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Computable Numbers 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis by Alan Turing, Andrew W. Appel (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morphogenesis: Collected Works of A.M. Turing by Alan Turing, P.T. Saunders (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Works of A.M. Turing : Mathematical Logic by Alan Turing, R.O. Gandy (Editor), C.E.M. Yates (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A. M. Turing's ACE Report of 1946 and Other Papers by Alan Turing, Michael Woodger, R.W. Doran (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pure Mathematics: Collected Works of A.M. Turing by Alan Turing (Editor), J.L. Britton (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intelligence Service: Schriften 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence

tags: distance, future, inspirational, progress, science, vision, work

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“I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.

Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think

Yours in distress,

Alan”
― Alan Turing

tags: artificial-intelligence, homophobia, homosexuality

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