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Alan Turing was born in Britain in 1912
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Turing got a formal education in mathematics at Cambridge college at the age of 22.
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Alan Turing graduated with his PH.D. in 1938 from Princeton. His degree was in mathematical logic and he had studied under Alonzo Church.
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Turing joined the Government Code and Cypher School the same year world war II began. Turing would work at Bletchley Park for this time,
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Alan Turing is awarded the honor of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition in his code breaking and acknowledgement of the lives he saved throughout the war.
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Alan Turing publishes the first paper with an electronic computer. it is the first data storing machine designed, however it would not be built fast enough to be the first built.
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While at the University of Manchester, Alan Turing developed one of his most famous inventions, the Turing machine. The machine could calculate real numbers with accuracy far more efficiently than any person could reasonably do.
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Alan Turing is made deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University. He begins research on a number of topics including some of the very first work on artificial intelligence.
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A test to determine if a Machine was "Thinking" was developed by Turing as a way to measure artificial intelligence.
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Turing is elected a member of the Royal Society, one of the highest honors given to English by their kingdom.
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Turing is found guilty of "gross Indecency" as Homosexuality was a crime in the British empire at the time. Turing has a criminal record and can no longer work in government labs.
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Alan Turing died under suspicious circumstances in 1954 just before his 42nd birthday. it is suspected either poisoning or suicide.
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Alan Turing is recognized as a national hero with a statue in his honor at Bletchley Park.
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Alan Turing and others are given a posthumous pardon by the Queen after the laws against homosexuality are removed
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A biopic film is made in the honor of Turing, the film is a testament of the accomplishments of Turing's life and shows the relevance Turing has not just as a scientist and hacker, but as a socially and politically revered member of history.
