name: Alan Mathison Turing
image: img/alan-turing.jpg
period: 1930s
English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher. Was breaking German ciphers during WWII and designing electronic stored-program computer (ACE). With his 1936 paper kicked of what became a theoretical computer science that defined what is now known as the "Universal Turing machine".
- graduated Cambridge
- worked at the National Physical Laboratory
- worked at Victoria University of Manchester
- Turing showed Shannon his seminal paper
- Turing machine
- Turing test
- Everyone
- Paper "On computable numbers with an application to the entscheidungsproblem", 1936
- Book "Annotated Turing" works though his seminal paper
- Chapter 3 in book "Tools for Thought"
- Biography book "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
- Movie "The Imitation Game"