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Turing
[ toor-ing ]
noun
- Alan Math·i·son [math, -, uh, -s, uh, n], 1912–54, English mathematician, logician, and pioneer in computer theory.
Turing
/ ˈtjʊərɪŋ /
noun
- TuringAlan Mathison19121954MEnglishSCIENCE: mathematician Alan Mathison . 1912–54, English mathematician, who was responsible for formal description of abstract automata, and speculation on computer imitation of humans: a leader of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II
Turing
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- British mathematician who in 1937 formulated a precise mathematical concept for a theoretical computing machine, a key step in the development of the first computer. After the war he designed computers for the British government and helped in developing the concept of artificial intelligence.
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At no time during his ordeal was Turing able to publicly reveal the far greater secret that had framed his life since 1940.
Nonetheless, Turing killed himself on June 7, 1954, in a deliberately prepared way, by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
Whatever the reason, in 1954 Turing found himself out in the cold as far as any future secret work was concerned.
Turing conceived and built a computer, the forerunner of all digital computations, that cracked the code.
Alexander is everything Turing is not—gregarious, flirty, and, you guessed it, charming.
That work was led by my personal all-time hero, a guy named Alan Turing, who pretty much invented computers as we know them today.
Once Turing looked hard at it, he figured out that the Nazi cryptographers had made a mathematical mistake.
Complained that the physicians and attendants were tor turing him in order to drive him insane.
The problem had been that Turing was smarter than the guy who thought up Enigma.
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