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Definition of Alan Turing
1. Noun. English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alan Turing
Literary usage of Alan Turing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max. Hailperin, Barbara. Kaiser, Karl. Knight (1999)
"The mathematician Alan Turing spent considerable effort on these careful ...
Alan Turing One of the surest signs of genius in a computer scientist is the ..."
2. The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist by Jacques Vallee (1982)
"And it was the same Alan Turing about whom an otherwise excellent history book,
... It was also the same Alan Turing who had proposed an abstract automaton ..."
3. The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of by Jacques F. Vallee (2003)
"... decision that would turn Turing's life into an increasingly complex series of
crises. By 1943 an entire industry had Figure 2: Alan Turing Alan Turing ..."
4. Technology and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Tadao Chino (2002)
"The person with the strongest claim is probably Alan Turing. What Turing invented,
back in the 1930s, was the idea of computing. ..."
5. Innovation in Information Technology by National Research Council (U.S.) (2003)
"Basic theoretical work defining a universal computer was the contribution of Alan
Turing in Cambridge just before the start of World War II. ..."
6. C-O-R Generalized Functions, Current Algebras, and Control by Robert Hermann (1994)
"But Anderson went on to claim that “... they [the results of partide physics]
are in no sense more fundamental than what Alan Turing did in founding ..."
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