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Alan Turing was born in Maida Vale, London on June 23 1912
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Turing attended Sherborne School at the age of 13.
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By the age of 16, Turing had the ability to grasp Einstein's work and also able to understand Einstein's theories of Newtons Laws of Motion
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Turing attends King College for Mathematics
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At the age of 22 Turing becomes a Fellow at King's College.
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In 1938 Turing comes to America and attends Princeton to further study Mathematics
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The Bombe was a code-breaking machine, developed by Turing and Gordon Welchman during World War II. It helped the allies during WWII and was able to break german codes.
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During the War Turing and his colleagues were able to tackle other German codes and break German Naval Enigma, which greatly aided the allies in winning the war
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After the war ended in 1945, Turing was awarded OBE for his wartime efforts and for helping the allies win the war.
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In 1946, Turing also joined the National Physical Lab, where is he works to create a computing machine. During that time he also publishes a paper on his works and findings
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In 1949 Turing becomes Deputy director and is in charge of the Computing Laboratory. There he works on the Manchester Mark 1 and artificial intelligence. He created an experiment on AI that tried to implement a guideline for machine intelligence. This later became the "Turing Test".
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In 1950 Alan Turing published "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". This paper became very known and also famous for the Turing test.
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In 1952 being a homosexual was illegal in the United Kingdom. Turing and Arnold Murray meet and share a romantic relationship. Being that this is not allowed during that time Turing is arrested for Gross indecency and given a choice, prison or to be chemically castrated with hormones. He pleaded guilty and chose the chemical castration
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On June 8th 1954 Alan Turing commits suicide by biting into an apple laced with cyanide.
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In 1966 the Alan Turing award is created. It is an award the is recognized as the highest honor for a computer scientist. It was created because Alan Turing is considered one of the leaders of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
