This codebreaking work significantly helped the allies to win the war especially the naval war in the atlantic. During the second world war, he was part of a top secret group of codebreakers who helped to break the german enigma machine. Alans mother, ethel sara stoney, was the daughter of the chief engineer of the madras railways and alans parents had met and married in. Alan turing views and opinions historys heroes from e2bn. 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. Turing the essential turing seminal writings in computing. Alan turing was a famous mathematician and world war ii cryptanalyst, working for the british government. His father, julius mathison turing, was a british member of the indian civil service and he was often abroad. This archive contains many of turings letters, talks, photographs and unpublished papers, as well as memoirs and obituaries written about him. Alan turingan english mathematician, logician, and cryptanalystwas a computer pioneer.
The turing test, developed by alan turing in 1950, is a test of a machines ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Alan turing simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for alan turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. Alan turing, in full alan mathison turing, born june 23, 1912, london, englanddied june 7, 1954, wilmslow, cheshire, british mathematician and logician, who made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis, logic, philosophy, and mathematical biology and also to the new areas later named computer science, cognitive science. Turing is wellknown for being one of the fathers of computer science and the forerunner of modern computing. He also had to do with the formalization of the concept of. Alan turing biography childhood, life achievements. While turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we cant put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and i am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry i, and we all are for what happened to him. The turing day collference at the swiss federal hlstitute of technology, lausanne, was held to mark the nilletieth a.
His father was part of a family of merchants from scotland. Alan turing 191254 is bestknown 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. The enigma of alan turing central intelligence agency. Computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life. Outline 1 infancia y juventud 2 cambridge y princeton. It can be read as s summary of my book alan turing. Alan turing this is a wikipedia book, a collection of wikipedia articles that can be easily saved, imported by an external electronic rendering service, and ordered as a printed book. Alan mathison turing mactutor history of mathematics. Alan turing and the other theory of computation expanded lenore blum computer science department, carnegie mellon university abstract. This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, profile, career and timeline. Za vrijeme drugog svjetskog rata je radio u bletchley parku i sagradio masinu pomocu koje su saveznici mogli citati njemacke poruke sifrirane preko uredaja enigma.
This short biography, based on the entry for the written in 1995 for the oxford dictionary of scientific biography, gives an overview of alan turing s life and work. Alan mathison turing was an english mathematician, logician, computer scientist, cryptographer, philosopher, marathon runner and british ultradistance runner. Often remembered for his contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and modern computer science before either even existed, turing is probably best known for what is now dubbed the turing test. Computers would probably have been nonexistent if it wasnt for the famous british mathematician, alan turing. On je takoder izmislio turingov stroj i po njemu je turingova nagrada dobila ime. Find out more about mathematician and nazi codebreaker alan turing, including how he developed the precursor to the modern computer, at. His mother, ethel sara, was the daughter of an engineer. Alan turing 19121954 was a brilliant mathematician and pioneer of computer science. Dao je doprinos konceptu algoritama i racunanja sa turingovom masinom. We recognize alan turings work in the foundations of numerical com. For help with downloading a wikipedia page as a pdf, see help. Find out more about mathematician and nazi codebreaker alan turing, including how he developed the precursor to the modern computer, at biography. The essential turing seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life plus the secrets of enigma edited by b.
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