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Saturday, June 25, 2022

Basic timeline of Alan Turing

This post is a basic timeline of Alan Turing (1912-1954). There are 18 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• 1912: Born in London, England
• 1926: Enrolls at Sherborne School
• 1931: Enrolls at King's College in Cambridge
• 1935: Elected Fellow of King's College for central limit theorem proof
• 1936: Publishes On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
• 1936: Enrolls at Princeton University
• 1938: Publishes Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals
• 1938: Begins working at the Government Code and Cypher School
• 1939: Solves the German naval indicator system
• 1942: Begins working with US Navy cryptanalysts and Bell Labs
• 1942: Creates Turingery technique in cryptography
• 1946: Publishes paper on stored-program computer design (ACE)
• 1948: Becomes reader at the University of Manchester
• 1948: Begins writing Turbochamp chess program
• 1950: Proposes Turing test for artificial intelligence
• 1952: Publishes The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis
• 1952: Prosecuted for homosexual acts
• 1954: Died at age 41 in Cheshire, England