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Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 June 1912
- Died
- 7 June 1954
- Place of birth
- Maida Vale, Warrington Lodge
- Place of death
- Wilmslow
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Turing
- Father
- Julius Mathison Turing
- Mother
- Ethel Sara Stoney
- Field of work
- cryptanalysis, computer science, mathematics, logic, cryptography
- Occupation
- computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, cryptographer, logician, statistician, marathon runner, artificial intelligence researcher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- atheism
- academic thesis
- Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals
- archives at
- Sherborne School, King's College Cambridge archive
- birth name
- Alan Mathison Turing
- cause of death
- cyanide poisoning
- convicted of
- gross indecency
- date of burial or cremation
- 12 June 1954
- described by source
- Did Alan Turing have Asperger's syndrome?, Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to Now
- doctoral advisor
- Alonzo Church
- doctoral student
- Robin Gandy, Beatrice Helen Worsley
- educated at
- King's College, Princeton University, Sherborne School, Hazlehurst Community Primary School
- employer
- Victoria University of Manchester, Government Communications Headquarters, University of Cambridge, National Physical Laboratory
- Erdős number
- 5
- exonerated of
- gross indecency
- influenced by
- Max Newman
- interested in
- mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, foundations of mathematics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- suicide
- medical condition
- stuttering
- member of
- Royal Society
- name in native language
- Alan Mathison Turing
- notable work
- 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
- owner of
- Alan Turing teddy bear
- place of burial
- Woking Crematorium
- related category
- Category:Things named after Alan Turing
- residence
- Maida Vale, Guildford
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- sport
- athletics
- student
- Robin Gandy
- student of
- Alonzo Church
- topic has template
- Template:Alan Turing
- topic's main category
- Category:Alan Turing
- unmarried partner
- Christopher Morcom
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