Alan Turing By rkjelstrom Jun 23, 1912 Alan M. Turing born in London 1927 Interest in Albert Einstein and Questioning of Newton's Laws of Motion 1931 Studies Mathematics at King's College, Cambridge 1935 Turing proves the central limit theorem in his dissertation at age 22 1936 Publishes paper on Computable Numbers and an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem 1936 Turing studied at Princeton under Alonzo Church. There he studied cryptology and mathematics 1938 Turing worked part-time at the Government Code and Cypher School 1939 Works with Gordon Welchman to develop the Bombe 1941 Broke the German Naval Enigma System 1942 Sent to the US as part of an intelligence collaboration 1945 Began the creation of an electronic digital stored-program computing machine 1949 Became the Deputy Director of Computing Laboratory at Manchester University 1949 Turing played a game of chess which he simulated a computer 1949 The Turing Test was created after trying to explore the problem with AI Jun 8, 1954 During dies by suicide
