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Alan Turing is born
Alan Turing was born in London, shortly before the start of WWI -
Chistopher Morcom's Death
Turing's closest school friend, Christopher, dies, an event believed to have influenced much of Turing's philosophy. -
Turing Graduates College
Turing graduated from King's College in mathematics, and was granted a fellow for proving the central limit theorem. -
Turing Publishes Major Paper
Turing Publishes his paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," which proved that his "universal computing machine" was possible. -
Turing gets his Ph.D.
Turing received his Ph.D. from Priceton University, also in mathematics. -
Turing Begins Work at Bletchly Park
With the start of WWII, Turing worked as a codebreaker to decrypt the German Enigma code. -
Turing Proposes Marriage
Turing proposes to another codebreaker, Joan Clarke, but breaks off the engagement after admitting to her that he's gay. -
Turing Invents Delilah
Turing worked with Donald Bayley to develop a program that could encrypt and decrypt recorded audio, though it was finished to late for use in WWII. -
Turing Publishes his ACE Report
While working with the National Physical Laboratory, Turing wrote a paper that described a stored-program computer. -
Turing Invents the LU Decomposition Method
Turing's method of solving matrices is still used today. -
Turing Writes the Turochamp
Turing worked with another computer scientist, D. G. Champernowne on a program that could play chess. -
Turing's 1950 Paper
The Turing Test, what Alan Turing is generally most famous for, was proposed in his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." -
Turing is Convicted for Gross Indecency
Turing was convited for homosexuality after his relationship with Arnold Murray was discovered. -
Turing's 1952 Paper
Later in life, Turing became more interested in biology, and published "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis." -
Turing's Death
Turing committed suicide through cyanide poisoning in his home.
