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Alan Turing
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Alan Turing Gold

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

23 Jun 1912 to 7 Jun 1954

Alan Turing was an English computer scientist (1912–1954). Born 1912 in Maida Vale. Associated with Victoria University of Manchester, Government Communications Headquarters, University of Cambridge.

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Education, Research
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Common questions

Who is Alan Turing?
Alan Turing was an English computer scientist (1912–1954). Born 1912 in Maida Vale. Associated with Victoria University of Manchester, Government Communications Headquarters, University of Cambridge.
What does Alan Turing do?
Alan Turing is known as computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher.
Where did Alan Turing study?
Alan Turing studied at Hazlehurst Community Primary School (1926).
What are Alan Turing's skills?
cryptanalysis, computer science, mathematics, logic, cryptography.
When was Alan Turing born?
Alan Turing was born on 1912-06-23 in Maida Vale.
What awards has Alan Turing received?
Fellow of the Royal Society, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Smith's Prize.
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Career and education

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Career

Education

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Public life

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Born
1912-06-23, Maida Vale
Died
1954-06-07, Wilmslow
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Occupations
computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, cryptographer, logician, statistician, marathon runner, artificial intelligence researcher
Affiliations
Royal Society of London
Also known as
Alan Mathieson Turing, Turing, Alan M. Turing, Alan Mathison Turing
Awards, work, projects

Achievements

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Awards

  • Fellow of the Royal Society 1951
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1946
  • Smith's Prize 1936

Notable work

  • On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
  • Computing Machinery and Intelligence
  • Intelligent Machinery
  • halting problem
  • Turing machine
  • Turing test
  • Turing completeness
  • Church–Turing thesis
  • universal Turing machine
  • Symmetric Turing machine
  • non-deterministic Turing machine
  • Bombe
  • probabilistic Turing machine
  • Turing degree
  • Delilah project
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Languages
English
Expertise
cryptanalysis, computer science, mathematics, logic, cryptography

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  • Wikimedia Commons. Photo, see the file page for licence

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