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Jun 29, 2012 · Alan Turing Turns 100 Alan Turing was the father of modern computing, ... ruled a suicide by the coroner. Turing feared that his work would be forgotten and dismissed because, as he put it, Turing ...
Jun 22, 2012 · In 1954, Turing committed suicide using an apple dipped in cyanide. His death is linked to his treatment by the authorities after his homosexuality was discovered. The discovery placed ...
Jun 3, 2002 · Alan Turing. First published Mon Jun 3, 2002; substantive revision Mon Sep 30, 2013. Alan Turing (1912–1954) never described himself as a philosopher, but his 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” is one of the most frequently cited in modern philosophical literature. It gave a fresh approach to the traditional mind-body ...
Alan Turing was a British mathematician . He made major contributions to the fields of mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence . He worked for the British government during World War II , when he succeeded in breaking the secret code Germany used to communicate.
Jan 25, 2024 · He was found dead by cyanide poisoning in 1954 in his bed, but his death was officially ruled as a suicide, even though it could have also been murder or accidental. Turing received a royal pardon from Queen Elizabeth II after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke in 2009 regarding the unfair treatment Turing faced while alive due to his ...
Jun 19, 2012 · Alan Turing - the Bletchley Park codebreaker - would have been 100 years old on 23 June had he lived to the present day. To mark the occasion the BBC commissioned a week-long series of articles to ...
The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles, under the leadership of mathematician Marian Rejewski, in the early 1930s. In 1939, with the growing likelihood of a German invasion, the Poles turned their information over to the British, who set up a secret code-breaking group known as Ultra, under mathematician Alan M. Turing.
