Summary:
Alan Turing was a great mind in the world's history. His idea was to make a machine that thought on its own. He was born in 1912 in England and spent most of his career focusing on math and science careers. He was considered a mathematician, cryptographer, computer scientist, and a biologist. In each field, he wanted answers about his research he was doing at the time. While he was trying to find answers to his questions, he found out new advancements to help out that specific field. His many achievements made him known for his work today as an excellent mathematician and scientist. His first piece of work that would become popular is his universal Turing machine. After that accomplishment, he went to work as a cryptographer to help with decoding German messages during World War II. He made a method that would decode messages faster than ever before. After the war, he went into a new field and started to become a computer scientist. Turing realized that his ideas wouldn't be able to follow through because the technology at the time wasn't as advanced as he would have liked it to be. So, he then went to become a biologist to find out more about how the brain makes decisions and why living things look like what they do. The study of heredity wasn't big during the time so he did some research with genetics. He was having trouble finding out the secrets of the human brain and didn't have time to do more research because his life was cut short from cyanide poisoning in 1954 when he was only 41 years old. |
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done" -Alan Turing |