ALAN MATHISON TURING
Alan Turing was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, computer scientist, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra- distance runner. Alan Turing is widely known as
the “Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence”
BORN AND DIED
Alan Turing was born on June 23,1912 at Maida Vale, London, England and he died on June 7,1954
at the age of 41.
EDUCATION:
Turing studied mathematics at Cambridge University, and subsequently taught there, working in the burgeoning World of Quantum Mechanics. In 1934 he graduated with an outstanding degree in mathematics. In 1936, he went to Princeton University in America, he later returned to England in 1938.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Alan Turing was a British mathematician , cryptographer, and computer scientist. (Unable to find the dates and employers). During his school life, however, he was a runner.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
Alan Turing was awarded an OBE for his wartime services . He was awarded the OBE in 1945 for services to the country in wartime, despite the fact that most of what he did would not be made public for another 30 years. Alan Turing’s war work is believed to have shortened the war – Many people, including Winston Churchill, claimed that Turing’s work shortened the Second World War by at least two years.
ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:
Turing secretly worked part-time for the British Cryptanalytic Department, Government Code, and went Cypher school.
INTERESTING FACTS:
~He developed a concept known as the Turing Machine which states that automatic computation cannot solve all mathematical problems.
~Alan Turing was a homosexual, and in that time it was a felony. To avoid prison, he accepted injections of oestrogen for a year, which were intended to neutralize his libido (cancel out his sexual instinct). In the sixth grade, he fell in love with a boy by the name of Christopher Morcom, and was prosecuted
~He worked on several pioneering projects for computers after the war, he developed instruction sets and programs whose descendants are found today in the latest computer microprocessors. This brought a whole new meaning to code.
~Our mixed ages of 14, 14, and 13 add up to the age he died, at the age of 41.
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