the turing trust
Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a brilliant mathematician, World War II
code-breaker, founder of computer science, philosopher and theoretical
biologist. His pre-war work laid down the theoretical plan for a programmable
computer (“On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the
Entscheidungsproblem”), and after the war he was closely involved in the design
and programming of the world’s earliest computing machines. He designed the ACE
(Automatic Computing Engine) built by the UK Government, wrote programming
manuals, published papers on mathematical biology and founded the discipline of
artificial intelligence.
