Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in Maida Vale, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Turochamp (1948). He died on June 7, 1954 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK.
He was posthumously inducted into the Cryptologic Hall of Honor in 2014.
When his homosexuality came to light, the British government gave him the choice of either jail time or chemical castration. He chose chemical castration.
Jack Copeland, a professor of philosophy, credited him with shortening the war in Europe by 2-4 years, and in the process saving 14-21 million lives. However this does not take into account the fact that the United States would still have developed atomic weapons by 1945. It also overlooks the Soviet contribution.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.