Portrait of Alan Turing. Source and license are linked in the caption.

Alan Turing

Born

English computer scientist (1912–1954).

Quick Facts

Died
1954-06-07
Occupation
computer scientist · mathematician · university teacher · cryptographer · logician · statistician · marathon runner · artificial intelligence researcher
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Birthplace
Maida Vale · Warrington Lodge
Membership
Royal Society of London · since 15 March 1951

Relationships

Alan Turing is the child of Julius Mathison Turing and Ethel Sara Stoney.

Spouses & partners

Awards & Nominations

Date / resultAward / category
1951
Received
Fellow of the Royal Society
24 June 1946
Received
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
1936
Received
Smith's Prize

Works & Screen Credits

  • 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

Education

Alan Turing attended Hazlehurst Community Primary School until 1926.

  • Hazlehurst Community Primary SchoolUntil 1926
  • Sherborne School1926 — 1931
  • King's College1931 — 1934
  • Princeton University1937 — 1938

Languages

Native language

  • English

Sources & Credits

Wikidata · Q7251 ↗
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