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Juune 1954 uun wilmslow, cheshire wiar en britisken loogiker, matemaatiker an informaatiker. Letter to winston churchill 1941 school of mathematics. The turing day collference at the swiss federal hlstitute of technology, lausanne, was held to mark the nilletieth a. Typographically reset in the impact volume, with commentaries. During the second world war, he was part of a top secret group of codebreakers who helped to break the german enigma machine. The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous. Alan turing was born in maida vale, london on 23 june 1912. Books by alan turing author of computing machinery and. The turing test, developed by alan turing in 1950, is a test of a machines ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. One of many publications designed to mark the centennial is alan turing. His work and impact, a collection that surrounds some of turings most important works with a mixture of scholarly. We recognize alan turings work in the foundations of numerical computation in particular, his 1948 paper roundingo.
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