Alan Turing By: Marina Ramirez

Birth, Childhood & Schooling Born on June 23rd, 1912 in London, England. Second child to parents Julius Turing and Ethel Stoney Displayed signs of high intelligence even as a child Wasn‘t a big fan of public school, so he studied math on his own, with his teachers unaware of his doing so. Alan was mostly considered an outsider. Birth, Childhood & Schooling

Personal vs. Professional Life He was a homosexual Never married or had children Injections of synthetic estrogen made him impotent Cryptanalysis Logic Philosophy Computer designer

Contribution, Publications, and Awards Invented the Turing Machine which would read a tape of symbols. Published both “On Computable Numbers” and “The Turing Machine” Awards- Order of the British Empire After death- 100 Greatest Britons and 100 Most Influential People of the 20th century

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.” Quotations “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty that needs to be done.” “A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing it was human.” “I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that on will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. “Sometimes it is people you no one can imagine anything of, who do the things no one can imagine.” “Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”

Interesting Facts He was known to solve complex problems in school without being taught how to do them. He was fascinated by a Disney cartoon version of Snow White which gave him the idea for his suicide There is a statue of Turing in Manchester He was known as the Father of Computer Science He became an atheist but still believed that the spirit survived the death of the body.

Would I party with him?

Death Died on June 7th, 1954. Died from cyanide poisoning, which was then ruled a suicide It is believed he committed suicide because of his sexual orientation The cyanide was in an apple Turing ate