Alan Mathison Turing

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Alan Turing on Wikipedia

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Book "The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma", 2004

Film "The Imitation Game", Morten Tyldum, 2014, USA, United Kingdom

 

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Excerpt from Breaking the Code Biography of Alan Turing (Derek Jacobi, BBC, 1996)

Published on March 16, 2018

 

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Three problems computers can never solve

Published on Jul 17, 2014

For 75 years, computers have worked within limits defined by Alan Turing. Now work has begun to fulfil his prophecy of a machine that can solve the unsolvable

"What will hypercomputers let us do? Good question"

July 17, 2014

 

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How Turing accidentally invented the computer

Published on Jul 22, 2014

Alan Turing, one of the 20th century's most wide-ranging and original minds, was born 100 years ago. John Graham-Cumming explains why his ideas matter

 

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Alan Turing's Brilliant but Overlooked Scientific Breakthrough

Published on Dec 5, 2014

Alan Turing is known as a genius mathematician, cryptanalyst, logician, and the father of modern computer science and A.I. You'll hear a lot about Turing's fascinating, inspiring, and ultimately tragic life in The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, but you may not know about his contribution to biological sciences-- one of his last great accomplishments. How did he form a major theory of morphogenesis? And why did it take until just recently to validate it? Kim Horcher discusses with science educator and actress, Christina Ochoa!

 

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Alan Turing: An Individual of the Twentieth Century - A. Hodges - 5/21/2015

Published on Jun 5, 2015

Talk abstract:

Alan Turing (1912-1954) was the founder of modern computer science and the chief scientific cryptographer of the Second World War.

Andrew Hodges, PhD, is the author of "Alan Turing: The Enigma," upon which the Academy Award-winning (Adapted Screenplay) "The Imitation Game," is based. Hodges offers the words of Walt Whitman referenced in his biography of Turing as a preview for this lecture: "One's-self I sing—a simple, separate Person; / Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse."

In this talk, Hodges—Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, University of Oxford— described some of the achievements that made Turing a very singular individual, but one caught up in the great sweep of twentieth-century science and history.

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