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Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) - British mathematician, cryptographer, and one of the key inventors of the modern computer. After his profound contributions to helping win World War II, he was persecuted for his homosexuality by his own government, and driven to suicide. Maintained by Turing biographer Andrew Hodges: extensive resources and links, online versions of several long essays on Turing.
Alan Mathison Turing - Undergraduate biographical essay by John M. Kowalik.
Wired Archive: Alan Turing - Stories involving Turing.
Alan Turing: The Biography Project - Biography, bibliography and links.
Alan Turing Archive - Archive and historical records pertaining to the work of computing pioneer Alan Turing.
Alan Turing - Biographical entry in the FOLDOC.
Alan Turing - Encyclopedia biography from Wikipedia.
Alan Turing - Biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
Alan Turing Papers - Collection record of Turings papers at Kings College, Cambridge.
Turing Digital Archive - Digital archive of items relating to Alan Turing.

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Alan Turing Building - The Alan Turing Building named after the mathematician and founder of computer science Alan Turing, is a building housing the School of Mathematics, the Photon Sciences Institute and the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (part of the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester) at the University of Manchester. ...
Alan Turing Institute - The Alan Turing Institute was set up in Manchester, England by UMIST and the Victoria University of Manchester is part of the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester. It focuses on industrial collaborations and is named in honour of Alan Turing, who worked at the Victoria University of Manchester.
Alan Turing's Unorganized Machines - In a far-sighted 1948 report Alan Turing suggested that the infant human cortex was what he called an unorganized machineTuring's 1948 paper has been re-printed as Turing AM. Intelligent Machinery.
Alan Turing Memorial - The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in the Sackville Park in Manchester, England, is in memory of a father of modern computing. Turing committed suicide in 1954 after being prosecuted by the police because of his (then illegal) homosexuality.
Turing jump - In computability theory, the Turing jump or Turing jump operator, named for Alan Turing, is intuitively described as an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X′ with the property that X′ is not decidable by an oracle machine with an oracle for X.