Alan Turing: hero The centenary of Alan Turing's birth should be the spur for a permanent memorial in the heart of our capital, says Chris Middleton Alan Turing's remarkable life and legacy celebrated in Science Museum exhibition Alan Turing was a code-breaker, a computer scientist, a mathematician, an ideas man. Chess algorithm written by Alan Turing goes up against Kasparov Performs exactly the way a real human would Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has played one of the first computer chess programs ever created, written over 60 years ago by Alan Turing.… Alan Turing Saved My Life Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him Citizen scientists honour Alan Turing with sunflowers I enjoy gardening, I have an amateur interest in science and I am always keen to get involved in... well, worthwhile things. So when I heard about the Turing's Sunflowers project, naturally I was eager to take part. Google Doodle honors Alan Turing It's "code"-your-own doodle day on the Google home page as the search giant celebrates the 100th birthday on Saturday of Alan Turing - the English mathematician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist - with an interactive doodle. 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 - 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. Did Alan Turing really commit suicide? The BBC reports on a Turing scholar's recent claims that by today's standard of evidence, there's reason to doubt the commonly-held belief that the famed computing pioneer committed suicide in response to government persecution over his homosexuality. To be clear, he does not claim to have disproved the suicide theory -- only that the cyanide poisoning that killed Turing could well have been an ... Alan Turing's 100th: 12 Celebratory Images From Across the Web Courtesy of Facebook, George Takei
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