Turing, Alan - (b. 1912, London, UK, d. 1953, Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK. Ph.D. mathematics, Princeton, 1938). Turing was a major influence on the development of computational theory. The term Turing machine was introduced by Alonzo Church in his 1937 review of Turing's paper in the Journal of Symbolic Logic. Turing proposed the test of thinking in machines that bears his name in a 1950 article in the journal Mind (59, 433-60). See Turing machine, Turing test.
Turing was at Cambridge in 1939, and at the Communications Department of the Foreign Office from 1939 to 1948. From 1945 to 1948 he was also at the National Physics Laboratory at Teddington. His last position was at the University of Manchester (1948-1953). Turing was a major influence on the development of computers in the UK. He and David Champernowne wrote the first chess-playing program for computers. Turing described the universal computing machine in 1937 (Proc. London Math. Soc., 42, 230-65). The term Turing Machine was introduced by Alonzo Church in his 1937 review of Turing’s paper in the Journal of Symbolic Logic. Turing proposed the test of thinking in machines that bears his name in a 1950 article in the journal Mind (59, 433-60). According to the Turing Test, if a computer is found to give answers to questions that cannot be distinguished from answers given by a person, it must be concluded that the computer can think.
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