Turing

[toor-ing]

noun

1. Alan Mathison 1912–54, English mathematician, logician, and pioneer in computer theory.

Turing

/ ˈtjʊərɪŋ /

noun

1. 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

1. 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.

Example Sentences

In the age when the passing of the Turing test was a distant prospect, the question of computing and the mind was one of anthropomorphism—of transmitting human qualities to an object.

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According to Gu, the Turing chips have “far higher” computing power than all other options currently on the market.

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Forster and the computer scientist Alan Turing — all three being, like their creator, King’s College alumni.

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She appears as Alan Turing's mother, who embodies a society that treated homosexual acts as a crime, an attitude that eventually led to his death.

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The Alan Turing Institute Chair has told the BBC there is "no substance" to a number of serious accusations which rocked the organisation in the summer.

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