Alan Turing By gamedav Jun 23, 1912 Born in Maida Vale, London, England 1926 Sherborne School 1926 Hazelhurst Preparatory School 1930 First true love passed away 1931 Started University of Cambridge 1934 Graduated Cambridge 1936 Entscheidungsproblem 1936 Turing Machine invented 1938 Returned to his fellowship at Cambridge 1938 Completes PhD at Princeton 1939 Works at Bletchley Park using The Bomba to decipher German Codes 1950 Published “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” 1950 Suggested the Turing Test as a criteria to determine if a computer is intelligent 1951 Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London 1951 Started working on artificial life 1952 Convicted of gross indecency 1952 Published “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis” Jun 7, 1954 Died by cyanide, ruled out to be suicide 1966 Term “Turing Machine” is coined 2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown publicly apologized for Turing’s “utterly unfair” treatment 2013 Queen Elizabeth II granted Turing a royal pardon
