Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician and war hero who founded modern computing. He suffered from paranoia, which was a result of his troubled personal life, and tragically committed suicide in 1954. Turing’s work laid the foundation for modern computation and artificial intelligence. The Apple logo may have been inspired by him.
Alan Turing was the founding father of modern computing. Born June 23, 1912, Turing led a very successful life. He was known as a war hero, Britain’s greatest codebreaker, an accomplished athlete and mathematician and quite simply one of the brightest minds in his country. During his lifetime, Turing experienced some paranoia. Turing was said to chain his coffee cup to a radiator to prevent others from using it and was even sometimes seen wearing a gas mask to work. Unfortunately, Turing’s strange behavior was the consequence of a troubled personal life that ultimately led to his death by suicide in 1954. Turing poisoned himself with cyanide in his home.
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It has been suggested that the Apple computer logo was inspired by Turing.
Alan Turing wrote the foundation for the modern theory of computation, also known as the Turing machine.
In 1949, at the University of Manchester, Turing developed work that became the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence.
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