Historical FigureMale
Alan Mathison Turing
1912 – 1954
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryAlan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician and logician widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science. He formalised the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, a model of a general-purpose computer, and his contributions to cryptanalysis helped the Allies of World War II deciper messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine. He also contributed the Turing test to philosophy of artificial intelligence and the Turing pattern concept to mathematical and theoretical biology.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
June 23, 1912
Maida Vale
Date of death
June 7, 1954
Wilmslow
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Occupations & fields
computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teachercryptographerlogicianstatistician
Awards & honours
Fellow of the Royal SocietyOfficer of the Order of the British EmpireSmith's PrizeOrder of the British Empire
Notable works
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the EntscheidungsproblemComputing Machinery and IntelligenceIntelligent Machineryhalting problemTuring machineTuring test
- Field and occupation
- britský matematik, logik, kryptograf a vojnový hrdina
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