I WAS LISTENING TO THE CBC RADIO THIS EVENING. THEY HAD A SPOT ON ALAN TURING.....THE GENIUS CODE BREAKER OF THE GERMAN MACHINE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THAT WAS THOUGHT TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO BREAK ITS CODES. THEY BELIEVE IT SHORTENED THE WAR BY 2 YEARS, AND MADE IT POSSIBLE TO GET ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TO BRITAIN [WITH FOOD AND WAR SUPPLIES] WITHOUT BEING SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINES. HE IS LOOKED UPON AS BEING A GENIUS AND THE FATHER OF MODERN COMPUTER SCIENCE...... VERY FASCINATING MAN. HERE'S A LITTLE FROM WIKIPEDIA
Alan Turing
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| Alan Turing | |
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Turing at the time of his election to Fellowship of the Royal Society
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| Born | Alan Mathison Turing 23 June 1912 Maida Vale, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 7 June 1954 (aged 41) Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematics, Cryptanalysis,Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge Government Code and Cypher School National Physical Laboratory University of Manchester |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge Princeton University |
| Thesis | System of Logic based on Ordinals (1938) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alonzo Church[1] |
| Doctoral students | Robin Gandy[1] |
| Known for | |
| Notable awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society |
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/ tewr-ing; 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, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.[2][3][4] Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.[5]
During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) 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, including the method of the bombe, anelectromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.
After the war, he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the ACE, one of the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers[6] and became interested in mathematical biology. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which were first observed in the 1960s.
YOU CAN GET A WHOLE LOT MORE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE LIFE AND MATHEMATICAL GENIUS OF TURING FROM THE FULL DETAILED INFORMATION OF HIM ON WIKIPEDIA.
YOU CAN GET A WHOLE LOT MORE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE LIFE AND MATHEMATICAL GENIUS OF TURING FROM THE FULL DETAILED INFORMATION OF HIM ON WIKIPEDIA.
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