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Alan M. Turing

Born

in London, England, The United Kingdom

June 23, 1912

Died

June 07, 1954

Website

http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/

Genre

Science, Computing

Influences

Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, John von Neumann, Richard Hamming ...more

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Works of British mathematician Alan Mathison Turing explored the possibility of computers and raised fundamental questions about artificial intelligence; during World War II, he helped to decipher the German enigma codes and thus contributed to the Allied victory.

This highly influential English logician, cryptanalyst, and scientist developed and provided a formalization of the concept of "algorithm" with the eponymous machine, which played a significant role in the modern creation. People widely considered this father.

Turing worked for the government code and cypher school at Bletchley park, code-breaking center of Britain. For a time, he headed hut 8, the responsible naval section. He devised a number of techniques, including the method ...more

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	Computing machinery and intelligence 4.16 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 1950 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	COPELAND:ESSENTIAL TURING PAPER: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma by Alan M. Turing, B. Jack Copeland (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mechanical Intelligence: Collected Works of A.M. Turing by Alan M. Turing (Editor), D.C. Ince (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Computable Numbers 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Computing Machinery and Intelligence / Können Maschinen denken? Englisch/Deutsch: [Great Papers Philosophie] – Turing, Alan M. (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek) by Alan M. Turing, Achim Stephan (Editor), Sven Walter (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Macchine calcolatrici e intelligenza by Alan M. Turing, Diego Marconi (translator) 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis by Alan M. Turing, Andrew W. Appel (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morphogenesis: Collected Works of A.M. Turing by Alan M. Turing, P.T. Saunders (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mathematical Logic (Volume 4) (Collected Works of A.M. Turing, Volume 4) by Alan M. Turing, R.O. Gandy (Editor), C.E.M. Yates (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Windows 10: A Beginner's Guide For Great User Experience by Alan M. Turing, Microsoft (Narrator) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence

tags: distance, future, inspirational, progress, science, vision, work

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“I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.

Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think

Yours in distress,

Alan”
― Alan Turing

tags: artificial-intelligence, homophobia, homosexuality

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