Alan Turing Saved My Life Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him Alan Turing: How he helped win World War II Alan Turning spearheaded the creation of the bombe, a device designed to crack the German Engima machine. Alan Turing recalled as computer pioneer Alan Turing recalled as computer pioneer Alan Turing's was a once-in-a-generation mind, ticking with mathematical insights that helped end a war and usher in the computing era. [...] rarely has a figure so brilliant and tragic lived outside of novels. [...] the British war hero and godfather of computer science died at the age of 41, in an apparent suicide following his criminal conviction for ... Alan Turing's 100th: 12 Celebratory Images From Across the Web Courtesy of Facebook, George Takei Alan Turing - Life and Tragic Death of Enigma and Computing Hero Father of computing, who would have been 100 on 23 June, cracked Nazi's Enigma code at Bletchley Park and studied artificial intelligence. Alan Turing celebrated with Google doodle The father of modern computing has his own doodle, 100 years after his birth. Alan Turing's 'suicide' in doubt Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed, claims an academic. Google honors Alan Turing with doodle MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 23 (UPI) -- Google honored the 100th anniversary of British mathematician Alan Turing's birth Saturday with a Turing Machine doodle on its home page. Code Breaker: Alan Turing's Life and Legacy, Science Museum, London The popular attitude to very brainy people is that they must be, by definition, odd: insular, distracted, almost certainly on the autistic spectrum. To the Science Museum's great credit, one outcome of its centenary tribute to the ultimately tragic maths genius Alan Turing is to humanise him. You emerge from this excellent free exhibition – financed by Google – with the sense that some small ... Gay WWII Hero Death Not Suicide The 100th birthday of the late Alan Turing, the gay British mathematician and computer theorist whose work decoding the infamous German Enigma machine is often credited with winning WWII, may have read more
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