Alan Turing

Computer Scientist



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Alan Turing


Department of Mathematics

Princeton University

Fine Hall, Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544-1000




Alan Turing

Computer Scientist


Department of Mathematics

Princeton University

Fine Hall, Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544-1000



Alan Turing was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Wikipedia

Publications




On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem


Alan Mathison Turing

Journal of Mathematics, pp. 345-363


Computing Machinery and Intelligence


Alan Mathison Turing

Mind, vol. 49, 1950, pp. 433-460


Rounding-off errors in matrix processes


Alan Mathison Turing

The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, vol. 1(1), 1948, pp. 287-308


Systems of logic based on ordinals


Alan Mathison Turing

Princeton University, 1938


Computability and lambda-definability (1937)


Alan Mathison Turing

Journal of Mathematics, vol. 2(4), 1937 Dec, pp. 153-163

Projects


Turing Machine


A Turing machine is an abstract "machine" that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules; to be more exact, it is a mathematical model that defines such a device. Despite the model's simplicity, given any computer algorithm, ...


Turing Test


The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Alan Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a mac...


Bombe Cryptanalytic Machine


At Bletchley Park, Turing had specified an electromechanical machine that could help break Enigma more effectively than the Polish bomba kryptologiczna, from which its name was derived. The bombe, with an enhancement suggested by mathematician Gordon W...


Banburismus Cryptanalytic Process


Banburismus was a cryptanalytic process developed by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in England during the Second World War. It was used by Bletchley Park's Hut 8 to help break German Kriegsmarine (naval) messages enciphered on Enigma machines. The proce...


Turingery


Turingery or Turing's Method (playfully dubbed Turingismus by Peter Ericsson, Peter Hilton and Donald Michie) was a hand codebreaking method devised in July 1942 by the mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing at the British Government Code and Cyphe...

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