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Tribute to Alan Turing
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<h1 class="text-center"> Alan Turing </h1>
<h3 class="text-center"> Father of Theoretical Computer Science </h2>
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Mathematician, Wartime Hero & Victim of Sexual Prejudice <h2>
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<h3 id="alquote" class="text-center"> “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
<br> <br> ― Alan Turing </h3>
<h3 class="text-center"> A Short Timeline Of Alan Turings Life: </h3>
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<li> 1912 - Born in Madia Vale, London, to Ethel Sara turing & Julius Mathison Turing. </li>
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<li> 1927-1930 - Alan furthers his love of science and maths by reading Einstein <br> whilst at Sherborne. His great friend, Christopher Morcom, who shares his interests,<br> suddenly dies. Alan is devastated.</li>
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<li> 1934 - Alan graduates with distinction in Mathematics from King's College, Cambridge.
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<li> 1938 - Alan goes to Princeton University in America to study mathematics <br> and is awarded a PhD.</li>
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<li> 1939 - Alan is asked to join the Government Codes and Ciphers School and <br> arrives at Bletchley Park the day after war is declared. </li>
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<li> 1940 - With Gordon Welchman, Alan develops the Bombe to decipher the messages <br> sent by the Germans using their Enigma machine.
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<li> 1943 - 45 - Alan works with top people in the USA, which he visits to share <br> information on code breaking.
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<li> 1945 - At the end of the war, Alan Turing is awarded the OBE for his wartime services.
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<li> 1946 - Alan publishes a paper with the first detailed design of a stored-program computer.
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<li> 1949 - Alan is made deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University. </li>
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<li> 1950 - Alan publishes the famous paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' in which <br> he develops the Turing Test.
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<li> 1951 - Alan is elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and also gives talks about Artificial <br> Intelligence on the BBC.
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<li> 1952 - Alan is arrested for gross indecency. He loses his security clearance so he <br> cannot work. He is offered chemical treatment instead of going to prison. The treatment <br> makes him very unwell.
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<li> 1954 - Alan dies in his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, from poisoning. A half-eaten apple <br> was found next to him laced with cyanide.
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<li> 1986 - A play, Breaking the Code, about Alan's life and work opens in the West End with <br> Derek Jacobi playing Alan.
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<li> 2007 - A slate sculpture of Turing is unveiled at Bletchley Park.
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<li> 2009 - Thousands of people sign a petition. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown makes <br> a public apology saying the treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling".
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<p class="text-center" id="wiki"> If you want to read more about the great mans life, check out his page on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing" target="_blank"> Wikipedia. </a>
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<h3 class="text-center"> In Memoriam </h3>
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<h3> “The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.”
<br> <br> - Time magazine, 100 People of the 20th Century </h3>
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“Alan Turing’s life story reads as if it were a tragic fiction. A great mind, an athlete, an eccentric, a hero of the Second World War, father of computer science and of artificial intelligence, a code breaker and, finally, a victim of prejudice. To me his short life encapsulates many of the great changes of the 20th century.” <br> <br> - Dr. John Graham Cumming, British Programmer & Writer </h3>
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<h3> "The things that he contributed to computer science weren’t the things that just happened to be true in one particular year or one particular decade, they were the things that are fundamentally true so they are always going to be with us, in the same way as things that Galileo and Newton contributed to physics are always going to be with us.” <br> <br> - Dr. Alma Whitten,
Google, Lead Privacy Engineer </h3>
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"Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. He truly was one of those individuals we can point to whose unique contribution helped to turn the tide of war. The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so inhumanely. "
<br> <br> - Gordon Brown, Former British Primeminster </h3>
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<h3> References: </h3>
<a target="_blank" href="http://historysheroes.e2bn.org/hero/minitimeline/91"> http://historysheroes.e2bn.org/hero/minitimeline/91</a>
<br> <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing </a>
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