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Alan Turing was born in London, England.
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Alan Turing becomes an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge to study Mathematics
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Alan Turing goes to Princeton University in America to study mathematics and is awarded a PhD.
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Alan Turing is asked to join the Government Codes and Ciphers School and arrives at Bletchley Park the day after war is declared.
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Alan develops the Bombe, a device for decrypting the messages sent by the Germans using their Enigma machine.
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Alan Turing manages to break the more complex, German Naval Enigma system.
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At the end of the war, Alan Turing is awarded the OBE for his wartime services.
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Alan Turing publishes a paper with the first detailed design of a stored-program computer.
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Alan is made deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University.
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Alan Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" where he develops the Turing Test, a test that determines whether a computer is intelligent or not.
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Alan Turing is arrested for having sexual relations with another man which was against the law at the time. He was offered chemical treatments instead of jailtime which had a detrimental effect on him.
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Alan Turing was found dead in his home from a cyanide poisoning. Some people suspected that he was murdered, but the official consensus is that he committed suicide.
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The annual Turing Award is established and given each year to a person for technical contributions to the computing community. It is generally viewed as important as the Nobel Prize.
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Alan Turing is pardoned for having sexual relations with a man.