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Рожденный	Алан Мэтисон Тьюринг ( 1912-06-23 ) 23 июня 1912 г. Мейда Вейл , Лондон, Англия
Умер	7 июня 1954 г. ) ( 1954-06-07 ) ( 41 год Уилмслоу , Чешир, Англия
Cause of death	Cyanide poisoning as an act of suicide
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, MA) Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	Cryptanalysis of the Enigma Turing's proof Turing machine Turing test Unorganised machine Turing pattern Turing reduction "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis"
Partner	Joan Clarke
Awards	Smith's Prize (1936)
Scientific career
Fields	Logic Mathematics Cryptanalysis Computer science Mathematical and theoretical biology
Institutions	University of Manchester Government Code and Cypher School National Physical Laboratory
Thesis	Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938)
Doctoral advisor	Alonzo Church
Doctoral students	Robin Gandy Beatrice Worsley
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Алан Мэтисон Тьюринг OBE FRS ( / ˈ tj ʊər ɪ ŋ / ; 23 июня 1912 — 7 июня 1954) — английский математик, учёный-компьютерщик , логик , криптоаналитик , философ и биолог-теоретик . Тьюринг оказал большое влияние на развитие теоретической информатики , обеспечив формализацию понятий алгоритма и вычислений с помощью машины Тьюринга , которую можно считать моделью компьютера общего назначения . Его считают отцом теоретической информатики.

Born in London, Turing was raised in southern England. He graduated in maths from King's College, Cambridge, and in 1938, earned a maths PhD from Princeton University. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. He led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Axis powers in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic.

After the war, Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948, Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory at the Victoria University of Manchester, where he helped develop the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. He wrote on the chemical basis of morphogenesis and predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, first observed in the 1960s. Despite these accomplishments, Turing was never fully recognised during his lifetime because much of his work was covered by the Official Secrets Act.

Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment, a procedure commonly referred to as chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, aged 41, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as suicide, but the evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning. Following a campaign in 2009, British prime minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology for "the appalling way [Turing] was treated". Queen Elizabeth II granted a pardon in 2013. The term "Alan Turing law" is used informally to refer to a 2017 law in the UK that retroactively pardoned men cautioned or convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts.

Turing has an extensive legacy with statues and many things named after him, including an annual award for computer science innovations. He appears on the current Bank of England £50 note, which was released on 23 June 2021 to coincide with his birthday. A 2019 BBC series, as voted by the audience, named him the greatest person of the 20th century.

Early life and education

Family

English Heritage plaque in Maida Vale, London marking Turing's birthplace in 1912

Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, while his father, Julius Mathison Turing, was on leave from his position with the Indian Civil Service (ICS) of the British Raj government at Chatrapur, then in the Madras Presidency and presently in Odisha state, in India. Turing's father was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. John Robert Turing, from a Scottish family of merchants that had been based in the Netherlands and included a baronet. Turing's mother, Julius's wife, was Ethel Sara Turing (née Stoney), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways. The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford, while Ethel herself had spent much of her childhood in County Clare. Julius and Ethel married on 1 October 1907 at St. Bartholomew's Church on Clyde Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin.

Julius's work with the ICS brought the family to British India, where his grandfather had been a general in the Bengal Army. However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in Britain, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Alan Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel. Turing had an elder brother, John Ferrier Turing, father of Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet of the Turing baronets.

Turing's father's civil service commission was still active during Turing's childhood years, and his parents travelled between Hastings in the United Kingdom and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple. At Hastings, Turing stayed at Baston Lodge, Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards-on-Sea, now marked with a blue plaque. The plaque was unveiled on 23 June 2012, the centenary of Turing's birth.

Very early in life, Turing showed signs of the genius that he was later to display prominently. His parents purchased a house in Guildford in 1927, and Turing lived there during school holidays. The location is also marked with a blue plaque.

School

Turing's parents enrolled him at St Michael's, a primary school at 20 Charles Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, from the age of six to nine. The headmistress recognised his talent, noting that she has "...had clever boys and hardworking boys, but Alan is a genius".

Between January 1922 and 1926, Turing was educated at Hazelhurst Preparatory School, an independent school in the village of Frant in Sussex (now East Sussex). In 1926, at the age of 13, he went on to Sherborne School, an independent boarding school in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, where he boarded at Westcott House. The first day of term coincided with the 1926 General Strike, in Britain, but Turing was so determined to attend that he rode his bicycle unaccompanied 60 miles (97 km) from Southampton to Sherborne, stopping overnight at an inn.

Turing's natural inclination towards mathematics and science did not earn him respect from some of the teachers at Sherborne, whose definition of education placed more emphasis on the classics. His headmaster wrote to his parents: "I hope he will not fall between two stools. If he is to stay at public school, he must aim at becoming educated. If he is to be solely a Scientific Specialist, he is wasting his time at a public school". Despite this, Turing continued to show remarkable ability in the studies he loved, solving advanced problems in 1927 without having studied even elementary calculus. In 1928, aged 16, Turing encountered Albert Einstein's work; not only did he grasp it, but it is possible that he managed to deduce Einstein's questioning of Newton's laws of motion from a text in which this was never made explicit.

Christopher Morcom

At Sherborne, Turing formed a significant friendship with fellow pupil Christopher Collan Morcom (13 July 1911 – 13 February 1930), who has been described as Turing's first love. Their relationship provided inspiration in Turing's future endeavours, but it was cut short by Morcom's death, in February 1930, from complications of bovine tuberculosis, contracted after drinking infected cow's milk some years previously.

The event caused Turing great sorrow. He coped with his grief by working that much harder on the topics of science and mathematics that he had shared with Morcom. In a letter to Morcom's mother, Frances Isobel Morcom (née Swan), Turing wrote:

I am sure I could not have found anywhere another companion so brilliant and yet so charming and unconceited. I regarded my interest in my work, and in such things as astronomy (to which he introduced me) as something to be shared with him and I think he felt a little the same about me ... I know I must put as much energy if not as much interest into my work as if he were alive, because that is what he would like me to do.

Turing's relationship with Morcom's mother continued long after Morcom's death, with her sending gifts to Turing, and him sending letters, typically on Morcom's birthday. A day before the third anniversary of Morcom's death (13 February 1933), he wrote to Mrs. Morcom:

I expect you will be thinking of Chris when this reaches you. I shall too, and this letter is just to tell you that I shall be thinking of Chris and of you tomorrow. I am sure that he is as happy now as he was when he was here. Your affectionate Alan.

Some have speculated that Morcom's death was the cause of Turing's atheism and materialism. Apparently, at this point in his life he still believed in such concepts as a spirit, independent of the body and surviving death. In a later letter, also written to Morcom's mother, Turing wrote:

Personally, I believe that spirit is really eternally connected with matter but certainly not by the same kind of body ... as regards the actual connection between spirit and body I consider that the body can hold on to a 'spirit', whilst the body is alive and awake the two are firmly connected. When the body is asleep I cannot guess what happens but when the body dies, the 'mechanism' of the body, holding the spirit is gone and the spirit finds a new body sooner or later, perhaps immediately.

University and work on computability

After graduating from Sherborne, Turing applied for several Cambridge colleges scholarships, including Trinity and King's, eventually earning an £80 per annum scholarship (equivalent to about £4,300 as of 2023) to study at the latter. There, Turing studied the undergraduate course in Schedule B (that is, a three-year Parts I and II, of the Mathematical Tripos, with extra courses at the end of the third year, as Part III only emerged as a separate degree in 1934) from February 1931 to November 1934 at King's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded first-class honours in mathematics. His dissertation, On the Gaussian error function, written during his senior year and delivered in November 1934 (with a deadline date of 6 December) proved a version of the central limit theorem. It was finally accepted on 16 March 1935. By spring of that same year, Turing started his master's course (Part III)—which he completed in 1937—and, at the same time, he published his first paper, a one-page article called Equivalence of left and right almost periodicity (sent on 23 April), featured in the tenth volume of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Later that year, Turing was elected a Fellow of King's College on the strength of his dissertation where he served as a lecturer. However, and, unknown to Turing, this version of the theorem he proved in his paper, had already been proven, in 1922, by Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg. Despite this, the committee found Turing's methods original and so regarded the work worthy of consideration for the fellowship. Abram Besicovitch's report for the committee went so far as to say that if Turing's work had been published before Lindeberg's, it would have been "an important event in the mathematical literature of that year".

Between the springs of 1935 and 1936, at the same time as Church, Turing worked on the decidability of problems, starting from Gödel's incompleteness theorems. In mid-April 1936, Turing sent Max Newman the first draft typescript of his investigations. That same month, Alonzo Church published his An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory, with similar conclusions to Turing's then-yet unpublished work. Finally, on 28 May of that year, he finished and delivered his 36-page paper for publication called "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". It was published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society journal in two parts, the first on 30 November and the second on 23 December. In this paper, Turing reformulated Kurt Gödel's 1931 results on the limits of proof and computation, replacing Gödel's universal arithmetic-based formal language with the formal and simple hypothetical devices that became known as Turing machines. The Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem) was originally posed by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1928. Turing proved that his "universal computing machine" would be capable of performing any conceivable mathematical computation if it were representable as an algorithm. He went on to prove that there was no solution to the decision problem by first showing that the halting problem for Turing machines is undecidable: it is not possible to decide algorithmically whether a Turing machine will ever halt. This paper has been called "easily the most influential math paper in history".

King's College, Cambridge, where Turing was an undergraduate in 1931 and became a Fellow in 1935. The computer room is named after him.

Although Turing's proof was published shortly after Alonzo Church's equivalent proof using his lambda calculus, Turing's approach is considerably more accessible and intuitive than Church's. It also included a notion of a 'Universal Machine' (now known as a universal Turing machine), with the idea that such a machine could perform the tasks of any other computation machine (as indeed could Church's lambda calculus). According to the Church–Turing thesis, Turing machines and the lambda calculus are capable of computing anything that is computable. John von Neumann acknowledged that the central concept of the modern computer was due to Turing's paper. To this day, Turing machines are a central object of study in theory of computation.

From September 1936 to July 1938, Turing spent most of his time studying under Church at Princeton University, in the second year as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow. In addition to his purely mathematical work, he studied cryptology and also built three of four stages of an electro-mechanical binary multiplier. In June 1938, he obtained his PhD from the Department of Mathematics at Princeton; his dissertation, Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals, introduced the concept of ordinal logic and the notion of relative computing, in which Turing machines are augmented with so-called oracles, allowing the study of problems that cannot be solved by Turing machines. John von Neumann wanted to hire him as his postdoctoral assistant, but he went back to the United Kingdom.

Career and research

When Turing returned to Cambridge, he attended lectures given in 1939 by Ludwig Wittgenstein about the foundations of mathematics. The lectures have been reconstructed verbatim, including interjections from Turing and other students, from students' notes. Turing and Wittgenstein argued and disagreed, with Turing defending formalism and Wittgenstein propounding his view that mathematics does not discover any absolute truths, but rather invents them.

Cryptanalysis

During the Second World War, Turing was a leading participant in the breaking of German ciphers at Bletchley Park. The historian and wartime codebreaker Asa Briggs has said, "You needed exceptional talent, you needed genius at Bletchley and Turing's was that genius."

From September 1938, Turing worked part-time with the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), the British codebreaking organisation. He concentrated on cryptanalysis of the Enigma cipher machine used by Nazi Germany, together with Dilly Knox, a senior GC&CS codebreaker. Soon after the July 1939 meeting near Warsaw at which the Polish Cipher Bureau gave the British and French details of the wiring of Enigma machine's rotors and their method of decrypting Enigma machine's messages, Turing and Knox developed a broader solution. The Polish method relied on an insecure indicator procedure that the Germans were likely to change, which they in fact did in May 1940. Turing's approach was more general, using crib-based decryption for which he produced the functional specification of the bombe (an improvement on the Polish Bomba).

Two cottages in the stable yard at Bletchley Park. Turing worked here in 1939 and 1940, before moving to Hut 8.

On 4 September 1939, the day after the UK declared war on Germany, Turing reported to Bletchley Park, the wartime station of GC&CS. Like all others who came to Bletchley, he was required to sign the Official Secrets Act, in which he agreed not to disclose anything about his work at Bletchley, with severe legal penalties for violating the Act.

Specifying the bombe was the first of five major cryptanalytical advances that Turing made during the war. The others were: deducing the indicator procedure used by the German navy; developing a statistical procedure dubbed Banburismus for making much more efficient use of the bombes; developing a procedure dubbed Turingery for working out the cam settings of the wheels of the Lorenz SZ 40/42 (Tunny) cipher machine and, towards the end of the war, the development of a portable secure voice scrambler at Hanslope Park that was codenamed Delilah.

By using statistical techniques to optimise the trial of different possibilities in the code breaking process, Turing made an innovative contribution to the subject. He wrote two papers discussing mathematical approaches, titled The Applications of Probability to Cryptography and Paper on Statistics of Repetitions, which were of such value to GC&CS and its successor GCHQ that they were not released to the UK National Archives until April 2012, shortly before the centenary of his birth. A GCHQ mathematician, "who identified himself only as Richard," said at the time that the fact that the contents had been restricted under the Official Secrets Act for some 70 years demonstrated their importance, and their relevance to post-war cryptanalysis:

[He] said the fact that the contents had been restricted "shows what a tremendous importance it has in the foundations of our subject". ... The papers detailed using "mathematical analysis to try and determine which are the more likely settings so that they can be tried as quickly as possible". ... Richard said that GCHQ had now "squeezed the juice" out of the two papers and was "happy for them to be released into the public domain".

Turing had a reputation for eccentricity at Bletchley Park. He was known to his colleagues as "Prof" and his treatise on Enigma was known as the "Prof's Book". According to historian Ronald Lewin, Jack Good, a cryptanalyst who worked with Turing, said of his colleague:

In the first week of June each year he would get a bad attack of hay fever, and he would cycle to the office wearing a service gas mask to keep the pollen off. His bicycle had a fault: the chain would come off at regular intervals. Instead of having it mended he would count the number of times the pedals went round and would get off the bicycle in time to adjust the chain by hand. Another of his eccentricities is that he chained his mug to the radiator pipes to prevent it being stolen.

Peter Hilton recounted his experience working with Turing in Hut 8 in his "Reminiscences of Bletchley Park" from A Century of Mathematics in America:

It is a rare experience to meet an authentic genius. Those of us privileged to inhabit the world of scholarship are familiar with the intellectual stimulation furnished by talented colleagues. We can admire the ideas they share with us and are usually able to understand their source; we may even often believe that we ourselves could have created such concepts and originated such thoughts. However, the experience of sharing the intellectual life of a genius is entirely different; one realizes that one is in the presence of an intelligence, a sensibility of such profundity and originality that one is filled with wonder and excitement.Alan Turing was such a genius, and those, like myself, who had the astonishing and unexpected opportunity, created by the strange exigencies of the Second World War, to be able to count Turing as colleague and friend will never forget that experience, nor can we ever lose its immense benefit to us.

Hilton echoed similar thoughts in the Nova PBS documentary Decoding Nazi Secrets.

While working at Bletchley, Turing, who was a talented long-distance runner, occasionally ran the 40 miles (64 km) to London when he was needed for meetings, and he was capable of world-class marathon standards. Turing tried out for the 1948 British Olympic team, but he was hampered by an injury. His tryout time for the marathon was only 11 minutes slower than British silver medallist Thomas Richards' Olympic race time of 2 hours 35 minutes. He was Walton Athletic Club's best runner, a fact discovered when he passed the group while running alone. When asked why he ran so hard in training he replied:

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard; it's the only way I can get some release.

Due to the problems of counterfactual history, it is hard to estimate the precise effect Ultra intelligence had on the war. However, official war historian Harry Hinsley estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over 14 million lives.

At the end of the war, a memo was sent to all those who had worked at Bletchley Park, reminding them that the code of silence dictated by the Official Secrets Act did not end with the war but would continue indefinitely. Thus, even though Turing was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1946 by King George VI for his wartime services, his work remained secret for many years.

Bombe

Within weeks of arriving at Bletchley Park, Turing had specified an electromechanical machine called the bombe, which could break Enigma more effectively than the Polish bomba kryptologiczna, from which its name was derived. The bombe, with an enhancement suggested by mathematician Gordon Welchman, became one of the primary tools, and the major automated one, used to attack Enigma-enciphered messages.

A working replica of a bombe now at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park

The bombe searched for possible correct settings used for an Enigma message (i.e., rotor order, rotor settings and plugboard settings) using a suitable crib: a fragment of probable plaintext. For each possible setting of the rotors (which had on the order of 10¹⁹ states, or 10²² states for the four-rotor U-boat variant), the bombe performed a chain of logical deductions based on the crib, implemented electromechanically.

The bombe detected when a contradiction had occurred and ruled out that setting, moving on to the next. Most of the possible settings would cause contradictions and be discarded, leaving only a few to be investigated in detail. A contradiction would occur when an enciphered letter would be turned back into the same plaintext letter, which was impossible with the Enigma. The first bombe was installed on 18 March 1940.

Action This Day

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By late 1941, Turing and his fellow cryptanalysts Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander and Stuart Milner-Barry were frustrated. Building on the work of the Poles, they had set up a good working system for decrypting Enigma signals, but their limited staff and bombes meant they could not translate all the signals. In the summer, they had considerable success, and shipping losses had fallen to under 100,000 tons a month; however, they badly needed more resources to keep abreast of German adjustments. They had tried to get more people and fund more bombes through the proper channels, but had failed.

On 28 October they wrote directly to Winston Churchill explaining their difficulties, with Turing as the first named. They emphasised how small their need was compared with the vast expenditure of men and money by the forces and compared with the level of assistance they could offer to the forces. As Andrew Hodges, biographer of Turing, later wrote, "This letter had an electric effect." Churchill wrote a memo to General Ismay, which read: "ACTION THIS DAY. Make sure they have all they want on extreme priority and report to me that this has been done." On 18 November, the chief of the secret service reported that every possible measure was being taken. The cryptographers at Bletchley Park did not know of the Prime Minister's response, but as Milner-Barry recalled, "All that we did notice was that almost from that day the rough ways began miraculously to be made smooth." More than two hundred bombes were in operation by the end of the war.

Hut 8 and the naval Enigma

Statue of Turing holding an Enigma machine by Stephen Kettle at Bletchley Park, commissioned by Sidney Frank, built from half a million pieces of Welsh slate

Turing decided to tackle the particularly difficult problem of cracking the German naval use of Enigma "because no one else was doing anything about it and I could have it to myself". In December 1939, Turing solved the essential part of the naval indicator system, which was more complex than the indicator systems used by the other services.

That same night, he also conceived of the idea of Banburismus, a sequential statistical technique (what Abraham Wald later called sequential analysis) to assist in breaking the naval Enigma, "though I was not sure that it would work in practice, and was not, in fact, sure until some days had actually broken". For this, he invented a measure of weight of evidence that he called the ban. Banburismus could rule out certain sequences of the Enigma rotors, substantially reducing the time needed to test settings on the bombes. Later this sequential process of accumulating sufficient weight of evidence using decibans (one tenth of a ban) was used in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.

Turing travelled to the United States in November 1942 and worked with US Navy cryptanalysts on the naval Enigma and bombe construction in Washington. He also visited their Computing Machine Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.

Turing's reaction to the American bombe design was far from enthusiastic:

The American Bombe programme was to produce 336 Bombes, one for each wheel order. I used to smile inwardly at the conception of Bombe hut routine implied by this programme, but thought that no particular purpose would be served by pointing out that we would not really use them in that way.Their test (of commutators) can hardly be considered conclusive as they were not testing for the bounce with electronic stop finding devices. Nobody seems to be told about rods or offiziers or banburismus unless they are really going to do something about it.

During this trip, he also assisted at Bell Labs with the development of secure speech devices. He returned to Bletchley Park in March 1943. During his absence, Hugh Alexander had officially assumed the position of head of Hut 8, although Alexander had been de facto head for some time (Turing having little interest in the day-to-day running of the section). Turing became a general consultant for cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park.

Alexander wrote of Turing's contribution:

There should be no question in anyone's mind that Turing's work was the biggest factor in Hut 8's success. In the early days, he was the only cryptographer who thought the problem worth tackling and not only was he primarily responsible for the main theoretical work within the Hut, but he also shared with Welchman and Keen the chief credit for the invention of the bombe. It is always difficult to say that anyone is 'absolutely indispensable', but if anyone was indispensable to Hut 8, it was Turing. The pioneer's work always tends to be forgotten when experience and routine later make everything seem easy and many of us in Hut 8 felt that the magnitude of Turing's contribution was never fully realised by the outside world.

Turingery

In July 1942, Turing devised a technique termed Turingery (or jokingly Turingismus) for use against the Lorenz cipher messages produced by the Germans' new Geheimschreiber (secret writer) machine. This was a teleprinter rotor cipher attachment codenamed Tunny at Bletchley Park. Turingery was a method of wheel-breaking, i.e., a procedure for working out the cam settings of Tunny's wheels. He also introduced the Tunny team to Tommy Flowers who, under the guidance of Max Newman, went on to build the Colossus computer, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer, which replaced a simpler prior machine (the Heath Robinson), and whose superior speed allowed the statistical decryption techniques to be applied usefully to the messages. Some have mistakenly said that Turing was a key figure in the design of the Colossus computer. Turingery and the statistical approach of Banburismus undoubtedly fed into the thinking about cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, but he was not directly involved in the Colossus development.

Delilah

Following his work at Bell Labs in the US, Turing pursued the idea of electronic enciphering of speech in the telephone system. In the latter part of the war, he moved to work for the Secret Service's Radio Security Service (later HMGCC) at Hanslope Park. At the park, he further developed his knowledge of electronics with the assistance of REME officer Donald Bayley. Together they undertook the design and construction of a portable secure voice communications machine codenamed Delilah. The machine was intended for different applications, but it lacked the capability for use with long-distance radio transmissions. In any case, Delilah was completed too late to be used during the war. Though the system worked fully, with Turing demonstrating it to officials by encrypting and decrypting a recording of a Winston Churchill speech, Delilah was not adopted for use. Turing also consulted with Bell Labs on the development of SIGSALY, a secure voice system that was used in the later years of the war.

Early computers and the Turing test

Plaque, 78 High Street, Hampton

Between 1945 and 1947, Turing lived in Hampton, London, while he worked on the design of the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). He presented a paper on 19 February 1946, which was the first detailed design of a stored-program computer. Von Neumann's incomplete First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC had predated Turing's paper, but it was much less detailed and, according to John R. Womersley, Superintendent of the NPL Mathematics Division, it "contains a number of ideas which are Dr. Turing's own".

Although ACE was a feasible design, the effect of the Official Secrets Act surrounding the wartime work at Bletchley Park made it impossible for Turing to explain the basis of his analysis of how a computer installation involving human operators would work. This led to delays in starting the project and he became disillusioned. In late 1947 he returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical year during which he produced a seminal work on Intelligent Machinery that was not published in his lifetime. While he was at Cambridge, the Pilot ACE was being built in his absence. It executed its first program on 10 May 1950, and a number of later computers around the world owe much to it, including the English Electric DEUCE and the American Bendix G-15. The full version of Turing's ACE was not built until after his death.

According to the memoirs of the German computer pioneer Heinz Billing from the Max Planck Institute for Physics, published by Genscher, Düsseldorf, there was a meeting between Turing and Konrad Zuse. It took place in Göttingen in 1947. The interrogation had the form of a colloquium. Participants were Womersley, Turing, Porter from England and a few German researchers like Zuse, Walther, and Billing (for more details see Herbert Bruderer, Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz).

In 1948, Turing was appointed reader in the Mathematics Department at the Victoria University of Manchester. A year later, he became deputy director of the Computing Machine Laboratory, where he worked on software for one of the earliest stored-program computers—the Manchester Mark 1. Turing wrote the first version of the Programmer's Manual for this machine, and was recruited by Ferranti as a consultant in the development of their commercialised machine, the Ferranti Mark 1. He continued to be paid consultancy fees by Ferranti until his death. During this time, he continued to do more abstract work in mathematics, and in "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (Mind, October 1950), Turing addressed the problem of artificial intelligence, and proposed an experiment that became known as the Turing test, an attempt to define a standard for a machine to be called "intelligent". The idea was that a computer could be said to "think" if a human interrogator could not tell it apart, through conversation, from a human being. In the paper, Turing suggested that rather than building a program to simulate the adult mind, it would be better to produce a simpler one to simulate a child's mind and then to subject it to a course of education. A reversed form of the Turing test is widely used on the Internet; the CAPTCHA test is intended to determine whether the user is a human or a computer.

In 1948, Turing, working with his former undergraduate colleague, D.G. Champernowne, began writing a chess program for a computer that did not yet exist. By 1950, the program was completed and dubbed the Turochamp. In 1952, he tried to implement it on a Ferranti Mark 1, but lacking enough power, the computer was unable to execute the program. Instead, Turing "ran" the program by flipping through the pages of the algorithm and carrying out its instructions on a chessboard, taking about half an hour per move. The game was recorded. According to Garry Kasparov, Turing's program "played a recognizable game of chess". The program lost to Turing's colleague Alick Glennie, although it is said that it won a game against Champernowne's wife, Isabel.

His Turing test was a significant, characteristically provocative, and lasting contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence, which continues after more than half a century.

Pattern formation and mathematical biology

When Turing was 39 years old in 1951, he turned to mathematical biology, finally publishing his masterpiece "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" in January 1952. He was interested in morphogenesis, the development of patterns and shapes in biological organisms. He suggested that a system of chemicals reacting with each other and diffusing across space, termed a reaction–diffusion system, could account for "the main phenomena of morphogenesis". He used systems of partial differential equations to model catalytic chemical reactions. For example, if a catalyst A is required for a certain chemical reaction to take place, and if the reaction produced more of the catalyst A, then we say that the reaction is autocatalytic, and there is positive feedback that can be modelled by nonlinear differential equations. Turing discovered that patterns could be created if the chemical reaction not only produced catalyst A, but also produced an inhibitor B that slowed down the production of A. If A and B then diffused through the container at different rates, then you could have some regions where A dominated and some where B did. To calculate the extent of this, Turing would have needed a powerful computer, but these were not so freely available in 1951, so he had to use linear approximations to solve the equations by hand. These calculations gave the right qualitative results, and produced, for example, a uniform mixture that oddly enough had regularly spaced fixed red spots. The Russian biochemist Boris Belousov had performed experiments with similar results, but could not get his papers published because of the contemporary prejudice that any such thing violated the second law of thermodynamics. Belousov was not aware of Turing's paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Although published before the structure and role of DNA was understood, Turing's work on morphogenesis remains relevant today and is considered a seminal piece of work in mathematical biology. One of the early applications of Turing's paper was the work by James Murray explaining spots and stripes on the fur of cats, large and small. Further research in the area suggests that Turing's work can partially explain the growth of "feathers, hair follicles, the branching pattern of lungs, and even the left-right asymmetry that puts the heart on the left side of the chest". In 2012, Sheth, et al. found that in mice, removal of Hox genes causes an increase in the number of digits without an increase in the overall size of the limb, suggesting that Hox genes control digit formation by tuning the wavelength of a Turing-type mechanism. Later papers were not available until Collected Works of A. M. Turing was published in 1992.

A study conducted in 2023 confirmed Turing's mathematical model hypothesis. Presented by the American Physical Society, the experiment involved growing chia seeds in even layers within trays, later adjusting the available moisture. Researchers experimentally tweaked the factors which appear in the Turing equations, and, as a result, patterns resembling those seen in natural environments emerged. This is believed to be the first time that experiments with living vegetation have verified Turing's mathematical insight.

Personal life

Treasure

In the 1940s, Turing became worried about losing his savings in the event of a German invasion. In order to protect it, he bought two silver bars weighing 3,200 oz (90 kg) and worth £250 (in 2022, £8,000 adjusted for inflation, £48,000 at spot price) and buried them in a wood near Bletchley Park. Upon returning to dig them up, Turing found that he was unable to break his own code describing where exactly he had hidden them. This, along with the fact that the area had been renovated, meant that he never regained the silver.

Engagement

In 1941, Turing proposed marriage to Hut 8 colleague Joan Clarke, a fellow mathematician and cryptanalyst, but their engagement was short-lived. After admitting his homosexuality to his fiancée, who was reportedly "unfazed" by the revelation, Turing decided that he could not go through with the marriage.

Homosexuality and indecency conviction

In January 1952, Turing was 39 when he started a relationship with Arnold Murray, a 19-year-old unemployed man. Just before Christmas, Turing was walking along Manchester's Oxford Road when he met Murray just outside the Regal Cinema and invited him to lunch. On 23 January, Turing's house was burgled. Murray told Turing that he and the burglar were acquainted, and Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation, he acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were criminal offences in the United Kingdom at that time, and both men were charged with "gross indecency" under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. Initial committal proceedings for the trial were held on 27 February during which Turing's solicitor "reserved his defence", i.e., did not argue or provide evidence against the allegations. The proceedings were held at the Sessions House in Knutsford.

Turing was later convinced by the advice of his brother and his own solicitor, and he entered a plea of guilty. The case, Regina v. Turing and Murray, was brought to trial on 31 March 1952. Turing was convicted and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce libido, known as "chemical castration". He accepted the option of injections of what was then called stilboestrol (now known as diethylstilbestrol or DES), a synthetic oestrogen; this feminization of his body was continued for the course of one year. The treatment rendered Turing impotent and caused breast tissue to form. In a letter, Turing wrote that "no doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out". Murray was given a conditional discharge.

Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance and barred him from continuing with his cryptographic consultancy for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British signals intelligence agency that had evolved from GC&CS in 1946, though he kept his academic job. His trial took place only months after the defection to the Soviet Union of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in summer 1951 after which the Foreign Office started to consider anyone known to be homosexual as a potential security risk.

Turing was denied entry into the United States after his conviction in 1952, but was free to visit other European countries. In the summer of 1952 he visited Norway which was more tolerant of homosexuals. Among the various men he met there was one named Kjell Carlson. Kjell intended to visit Turing in the UK but the authorities intercepted Kjell's postcard detailing his travel arrangements and were able to intercept and deport him before the two could meet. It was also during this time that Turing started consulting a psychiatrist, Dr Franz Greenbaum, with whom he got on well and who subsequently became a family friend.

Death

A blue plaque on the house at 43 Adlington Road, Wilmslow, where Turing lived and died

On 8 June 1954, at his house at 43 Adlington Road, Wilmslow, Turing's housekeeper found him dead. A post mortem was held that evening which determined that he had died the previous day at the age of 41 with cyanide poisoning cited as the cause of death. When his body was discovered, an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and although the apple was not tested for cyanide, it was speculated that this was the means by which Turing had consumed a fatal dose.

Turing's brother John identified the body the following day and took the advice given by Dr. Greenbaum to accept the verdict of the inquest as there was little prospect of establishing that the death was accidental. The inquest was held the following day which determined the cause of death to be suicide. Turing's remains were cremated at Woking Crematorium just two days later on 12 June 1954 with just three people attending and his ashes were scattered in the gardens of the crematorium, just as his father's had been. Turing's mother was on holiday in Italy at the time of his death and returned home after the inquest. She never accepted the verdict of suicide.

Andrew Hodges and another biographer, David Leavitt, have both speculated that Turing was re-enacting a scene from the Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), his favourite fairy tale. Both men noted that (in Leavitt's words) he took "an especially keen pleasure in the scene where the Wicked Queen immerses her apple in the poisonous brew".

Philosopher Jack Copeland has questioned various aspects of the coroner's historical verdict. He suggested an alternative explanation for the cause of Turing's death: the accidental inhalation of cyanide fumes from an apparatus used to electroplate gold onto spoons. The potassium cyanide was used to dissolve the gold. Turing had such an apparatus set up in his tiny spare room. Copeland noted that the autopsy findings were more consistent with inhalation than with ingestion of the poison. Turing also habitually ate an apple before going to bed, and it was not unusual for the apple to be discarded half-eaten. Furthermore, Turing had reportedly borne his legal setbacks and hormone treatment (which had been discontinued a year previously) "with good humour" and had shown no sign of despondency before his death. He even set down a list of tasks that he intended to complete upon returning to his office after the holiday weekend. Turing's mother believed that the ingestion was accidental, resulting from her son's careless storage of laboratory chemicals. Biographer Andrew Hodges theorised that Turing deliberately left the nature of his death ambiguous in order to shield his mother from the knowledge that he had killed himself. Doubts on the suicide thesis have been also cast by John W. Dawson Jr. who, in his review of Hodges' book, recalls "Turing's vulnerable position in the Cold War political climate" and points out that "Turing was found dead by a maid, who discovered him 'lying neatly in his bed'—hardly what one would expect of "a man fighting for life against the suffocation induced by cyanide poisoning." Turing had given no hint of suicidal inclinations to his friends and had made no effort to put his affairs in order.

OBE Тьюринга в настоящее время хранится в школы Шерборн. архивах

Было высказано предположение, что вера Тьюринга в гадание могла вызвать его депрессивное настроение. В юности гадалка предсказала Тьюрингу, что он станет гением. В середине мая 1954 года, незадолго до своей смерти, Тьюринг снова решил проконсультироваться с гадалкой во время однодневной поездки в Сент-Аннес-он-Си с семьей Гринбаум. По словам дочери Гринбаумов Барбары:

Но это был прекрасный солнечный день, и Алан был в веселом настроении, и мы поехали... Потом он подумал, что было бы неплохо сходить на Пляж Удовольствий в Блэкпуле . Мы нашли палатку гадалки, и Алан сказал, что хотел бы войти [,], поэтому мы стали ждать, пока он вернется... И это солнечное, веселое лицо превратилось в бледное, трясущееся, охваченное ужасом лицо. . Что-то произошло. Мы не знаем, что сказала гадалка, но он явно был глубоко недоволен. Я думаю, что это был, вероятно, последний раз, когда мы видели его перед тем, как услышали о его самоубийстве.

Извинения и помилование правительства

Основная статья: закон Алана Тьюринга

В августе 2009 года британский программист Джон Грэм-Камминг подал петицию, призывающую британское правительство извиниться за преследование Тьюринга как гомосексуалиста. Петиция собрала более 30 тысяч подписей. Премьер-министр Гордон Браун подтвердил петицию, опубликовав 10 сентября 2009 года заявление, в котором извинился и назвал обращение с Тьюрингом «ужасным»:

Тысячи людей собрались вместе, чтобы потребовать справедливости для Алана Тьюринга и признания ужасающего обращения с ним. Хотя с Тьюрингом поступили по законам того времени, и мы не можем повернуть время вспять, обращение с ним, конечно, было совершенно несправедливым, и я рад иметь возможность сказать, как глубоко я и мы все сожалеем о том, что случилось с Тьюрингом. его... Итак, от имени британского правительства и всех тех, кто живет свободно благодаря работе Алана, я с большой гордостью говорю: нам очень жаль, вы заслуживали гораздо лучшего.

В декабре 2011 года Уильям Джонс и его член парламента Джон Лич создали электронную петицию. с просьбой к британскому правительству помиловать Тьюринга за его осуждение за «грубую непристойность»:

Мы просим правительство Ее Величества помиловать Алана Тьюринга по обвинению в «грубом непристойном поведении». В 1952 году его признали виновным в «грубом непристойном поведении» с другим мужчиной и заставили пройти так называемую «органотерапию» — химическую кастрацию. Два года спустя он покончил с собой цианидом в возрасте всего 41 года. Алан Тьюринг был доведен до ужасного отчаяния и ранней смерти из-за нации, для спасения которой он так много сделал. Это остается позором для британского правительства и британской истории. Помилование может в некоторой степени исправить этот ущерб. Это может послужить извинением перед многими другими геями, не такими известными, как Алан Тьюринг, которые подверглись этим законам.

Петиция собрала более 37 тысяч подписей. и был представлен в парламент депутатом от Манчестера Джоном Личем, но эта просьба была отклонена министром юстиции лордом МакНелли , который сказал:

Посмертное помилование не было сочтено целесообразным, поскольку Алан Тьюринг был признан виновным в том, что на тот момент считалось уголовным преступлением. Он знал бы, что его преступление было противозаконным и что он будет привлечен к ответственности. Трагично, что Алан Тьюринг был осужден за преступление, которое сейчас кажется одновременно жестоким и абсурдным – особенно горьким, учитывая его выдающийся вклад в военные усилия. Однако закон того времени требовал судебного преследования, и поэтому давняя политика заключалась в том, чтобы признать, что такие осуждения имели место, и вместо того, чтобы пытаться изменить исторический контекст и исправить то, что исправить невозможно, вместо этого обеспечить что мы никогда больше не вернемся в те времена.

Джон Лич, член парламента от Манчестера Витингтона (2005–15), представил в парламент несколько законопроектов. и возглавил громкую кампанию по обеспечению помилования. Лич заявил в Палате общин, что вклад Тьюринга в войну сделал его национальным героем и что «в конечном итоге просто досадно», что приговор все еще остается в силе. Лич продолжал проводить законопроект через парламент и вел кампанию в течение нескольких лет, получив общественную поддержку многочисленных ведущих ученых, включая Стивена Хокинга . На британской премьере фильма, основанного на жизни Тьюринга, «Игра в имитацию» , продюсеры поблагодарили Лича за то, что он привлек внимание общественности к этой теме и добился помилования Тьюринга. Пиявку теперь регулярно называют «архитектором» помилования Тьюринга, а затем и Закона Алана Тьюринга, который обеспечил помилование 75 000 других мужчин и женщин, осужденных за аналогичные преступления.

был внесен законопроект 26 июля 2012 года в Палату лордов о помиловании Тьюринга за преступления, предусмотренные статьей 11 Закона о поправках к уголовному закону 1885 года, за которые он был осужден 31 марта 1952 года. В конце года в письме в The Daily Telegraph физик Стивен Хокинг и еще 10 человек подписались, включая королевского астронома лорда Риса , президента Королевского общества сэра Пола Нерса , леди Трампингтон (которая работала на Тьюринга во время войны) и лорда Шарки. (спонсор законопроекта) призвал премьер-министра Дэвида Кэмерона выполнить просьбу о помиловании. Правительство заявило, что поддержит законопроект. и в октябре он прошел третье чтение в Палате лордов.

На втором чтении законопроекта в Палате общин 29 ноября 2013 года депутат-консерватор Кристофер Чоуп возразил против законопроекта, отложив его принятие. Законопроект должен был вернуться в Палату общин 28 февраля 2014 года. но прежде чем законопроект мог быть обсужден в Палате общин, правительство решило действовать в соответствии с королевской прерогативой милосердия . 24 декабря 2013 года королева Елизавета II подписала помилование Тьюринга, осужденного за «грубое непристойное поведение», с немедленным вступлением в силу. Объявляя о помиловании, лорд-канцлер Крис Грейлинг заявил, что Тьюринг заслуживает того, чтобы его «помнили и признавали за его фантастический вклад в военные усилия», а не за его позднее осуждение за уголовное преступление. Королева официально объявила о помиловании Тьюринга в августе 2014 года. Решение королевы является лишь четвертым королевским помилованием после окончания Второй мировой войны. Помилование обычно предоставляется только в том случае, если лицо технически невиновно и просьба поступила от семьи или другой заинтересованной стороны; ни одно из условий не было выполнено в отношении осуждения Тьюринга.

В сентябре 2016 года правительство объявило о своем намерении распространить это ретроактивное освобождение от ответственности на других мужчин, осужденных за аналогичные исторические преступления непристойного характера, в соответствии с так называемым « законом Алана Тьюринга ». Закон Алана Тьюринга в настоящее время является неофициальным термином для закона Соединенного Королевства, содержащегося в Законе о полиции и преступности 2017 года , который служит законом об амнистии для ретроактивного помилования мужчин, которые были предупреждены или осуждены в соответствии с историческим законодательством, ставившим гомосексуальные действия вне закона. Закон применяется в Англии и Уэльсе.

19 июля 2023 года, после извинений правительства Великобритании перед ветеранами ЛГБТ , министр обороны Бен Уоллес предложил удостоить Тьюринга постоянной статуи на четвертом постаменте Трафальгарской площади , назвав доктора Тьюринга «вероятно, величайшим героем войны в моей истории». книга о Второй мировой войне, [чьи] достижения сократили войну, спасли тысячи жизней, помогли победить нацистов. И его история — это печальная история общества и того, как оно к нему относилось».

Публикации

• Тьюринг, AM (1938). «О вычислимых числах с применением к проблеме Entscheidungs: исправление». Труды Лондонского математического общества . 2. 43 (опубликовано в 1937 г.): 544–46. дои : 10.1112/plms/s2-43.6.544 .
• Тьюринг, Алан (1950). «Вычислительная техника и интеллект» (PDF) . Разум . 49 (236): 433–460. дои : 10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433 . Архивировано (PDF) из оригинала 9 октября 2022 года.

См. также

• Наследие Алана Тьюринга
• Список вещей, названных в честь Алана Тьюринга

Ссылки

Цитируемые работы

• Александр, К. Хью О'Д. «Криптографическая история работы над немецкой военно-морской загадкой» . Национальный архив, Кью, справка HW 25/1.
• Бобры, Энтони (2013). «Алан Тьюринг: математический механик» . В Купере, С. Барри; ван Леувен, Ян (ред.). Алан Тьюринг: его работа и влияние . Уолтем: Эльзевир. стр. 481–485. ISBN  978-0-12-386980-7 .
• Черч, Алонзо (1936). «Неразрешимая проблема элементарной теории чисел». Американский журнал математики . 58 (2): 345–363. дои : 10.2307/2371045 . ISSN   0002-9327 . JSTOR   2371045 .
• Коупленд, Б. Джек (2004a). «Колосс: его истоки и создатели». IEEE Анналы истории вычислений . 26 (4): 38–45. дои : 10.1109/MAHC.2004.26 . S2CID   20209254 .
• Коупленд, Б. Джек, изд. (2004б). Эссенциальный Тьюринг . Оксфорд: Издательство Оксфордского университета. ISBN  978-0-19-825079-1 . OCLC   156728127 .
• Коупленд, Б. Джек (2006). Колосс: Секреты компьютеров, взламывающих коды Блетчли-Парка . Издательство Оксфордского университета. ISBN  978-0-19-284055-4 .
  • Хилтон, Питер (2006). «Жизнь с рыбой: ловля тунца в Ньюманри и Тестери». Колусс . в Коупленде, 2006 г. , стр. 189–203.
• Ганнон, Пол (2007) [2006]. Колосс: Величайшая тайна Блетчли-Парка . Лондон: Atlantic Books. ISBN  978-1-84354-331-2 .
• Ходжес, Эндрю (1983). Алан Тьюринг: загадка . Лондон: Бернетт Букс. ISBN  978-0-09-152130-1 .
• Ливитт, Дэвид (2007). Человек, который знал слишком много: Алан Тьюринг и изобретение компьютера . Феникс. ISBN  978-0-7538-2200-5 .
• Левин, Рональд (1978). Ультра идет на войну: Тайная история . Классическая военная история (изд. Classic Penguin). Лондон: Hutchinson & Co (опубликовано в 2001 г.). ISBN  978-1-56649-231-7 .
• Махон, AP (1945). «История хижины восемь 1939–1945» . Справочник Национального архива Великобритании HW 25/2 . Проверено 10 декабря 2009 г.
• Окли, Брайан , изд. (2006). Военные дневники Блетчли-Парка: июль 1939 г. - август 1945 г. (2,6-е изд.). Винн Пресс.
• Сипсер, Майкл (2006). Введение в теорию вычислений . Издательство ПВС. ISBN  978-0-534-95097-2 .
• Тьюринг, AM (1937) [доставлен Обществу в ноябре 1936 года]. «О вычислимых числах с применением к проблеме Entscheidungs» (PDF) . Труды Лондонского математического общества . 2. Том. 42. С. 230–65. дои : 10.1112/plms/s2-42.1.230 .

Дальнейшее чтение

Статьи

• Коупленд, Б. Джек (ред.). «Разум и вычислительная машина: Алан Тьюринг и другие» . Резерфордский журнал .
• Коупленд, Б. Джек (ред.). «Алан Тьюринг: отец современного компьютера» . Резерфордский журнал .
• Ходжес, Эндрю (2004). «Тьюринг, Алан Мэтисон». Оксфордский национальный биографический словарь (онлайн-изд.). Издательство Оксфордского университета. doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/36578 . (Требуется подписка или членство в публичной библиотеке Великобритании .)
• Ходжес, Эндрю (2007). «Алан Тьюринг» . В Эдварде Н. Залте (ред.). Стэнфордская энциклопедия философии (изд. Зима 2009 г.). Стэнфордский университет . Проверено 10 января 2011 г.
• Грей, Пол (29 марта 1999 г.). «Ученый-компьютерщик: Алан Тьюринг» . Время . Архивировано из оригинала 16 октября 2007 года.
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• Левин, Жанна (2006). Безумец мечтает о машинах Тьюринга . Нью-Йорк: Кнопф. ISBN  978-1-4000-3240-2 .
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• Тьюринг, Сара (2012). Алан М. Тьюринг . Издательство Кембриджского университета . ISBN  978-1-107-02058-0 . (первоначально опубликовано в 1959 году издательством W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd)
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Внешние ссылки

• Интервью по устной истории с Николасом К. Метрополисом , Институт Чарльза Бэббиджа , Университет Миннесоты. Метрополис был первым директором вычислительных служб Лос-Аламосской национальной лаборатории ; темы включают отношения между Тьюрингом и Джоном фон Нейманом.
• Как Алан Тьюринг разгадал код «Энигмы» Имперские военные музеи
• Год Алана Тьюринга. Архивировано 17 февраля 2019 года в Wayback Machine.
• CiE 2012: Конференция, посвященная столетию Тьюринга
• Наука в процессе становления. Архивировано 4 апреля 2023 года в Wayback Machine. Документы Алана Тьюринга в архивах Королевского общества.
• Сайт Алана Тьюринга, поддерживаемый Эндрю Ходжесом, включая краткую биографию.
• AlanTuring.net - Архив Тьюринга по истории вычислений Джека Коупленда
• Цифровой архив Тьюринга - содержит сканы некоторых неопубликованных документов и материалов из архива Королевского колледжа Кембриджа.
• Документы Алана Тьюринга – Библиотека Манчестерского университета , Манчестер
• Джонс, Дж. Джеймс (11 декабря 2001 г.). «Алан Тьюринг – На пути к цифровому разуму: Часть 1» . Системный набор инструментов . Проект «Двоичная свобода». Архивировано из оригинала 3 августа 2007 года.
• Архив школы Шерборна - хранит документы, относящиеся ко времени Тьюринга в школе Шерборн.
• Таблички Алана Тьюринга, записанные на openplaques.org
• Алана Тьюринга на сайте New Scientist Архив