But Turing's true goal was the scientific understanding of the mind, brought out in the drama and wit of the famous "Turing test" for machine intelligence and in his prophecy for the twenty-first century.ĭrawn in to the cockpit of world events and the forefront of technological innovation, Alan Turing was also an innocent and unpretentious gay man trying to live in a society that criminalized him. In 1945 he was a pioneer of electronic computer design. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept of the universal machine, which underpins the computer revolution. But Turing's vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history.
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