Alan Turing on June 23, 1912, in Maida Vale, London England. At a young age, he displayed signs of high intelligence, which some of his teachers actually recognized it, but did not really respect the fact that he was in fact intelligent. When Turing attended the Sherborne School at the age of 13 he became primarily interested in math and science. After Sherborne, Turing enrolled at King's College or known as the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, he studied there from 1931 to 1934.
in 1936, Turing delivered a paper, in which he presented the idea of a machine, later called the Universal Turing Machine, and then the Turing machine capable of computing anything that is computable: The concept of the modern computer that we use …show more content…
After receiving his PhD from Princeton University in 1938, he returned to Cambridge and then took a part-time position with the Government Code and Cypher School, a British code-breaking organization.
During World War II, Turing was a leader in wartime code-breaking especially the German ciphers. He worked at Bletchley Park, where he made five major advances in the field of cryptanalysis, including the bombe, an electromechanical device used to help decipher German Enigma encrypted codes and signals. Turing’s contributions to the code-breaking process didn’t stop. He also wrote two papers about mathematical approaches to code-breaking, which became important to the Code and Cypher School.
Turing went on to hold high positions in the mathematics department at the National Physical Department Later at the computing laboratory at the University of Manchester in the late 1940s. In the 1950 he’s created a test called the “Turing Test”. This is a test given to computers to determine if you can be able to tell a human response apart from the response of a computer. If you could not determine which one was which a computer was then considered to be
in 1936, Turing delivered a paper, in which he presented the idea of a machine, later called the Universal Turing Machine, and then the Turing machine capable of computing anything that is computable: The concept of the modern computer that we use …show more content…
After receiving his PhD from Princeton University in 1938, he returned to Cambridge and then took a part-time position with the Government Code and Cypher School, a British code-breaking organization.
During World War II, Turing was a leader in wartime code-breaking especially the German ciphers. He worked at Bletchley Park, where he made five major advances in the field of cryptanalysis, including the bombe, an electromechanical device used to help decipher German Enigma encrypted codes and signals. Turing’s contributions to the code-breaking process didn’t stop. He also wrote two papers about mathematical approaches to code-breaking, which became important to the Code and Cypher School.
Turing went on to hold high positions in the mathematics department at the National Physical Department Later at the computing laboratory at the University of Manchester in the late 1940s. In the 1950 he’s created a test called the “Turing Test”. This is a test given to computers to determine if you can be able to tell a human response apart from the response of a computer. If you could not determine which one was which a computer was then considered to be