Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

Discover Alan Turing's Work

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Monday 21 November 2011

Alan Turing made a huge impact in a very short time. Discover more about Alan Turing and his work by exploring the resources below:

Cleverbot
An artificial intelligence application based on The Turing Test. You can talk to the computer who learns from its interactions with you

The Turing Test
An explanation of The Turing Test or imitation game which questions whether it is possible to tell the difference between a human and a thinking machine

The Turing Digital Archive
The King's College Cambridge archive contains images of Turing's original publications including his 1936/7 paper, 'On Computable Numbers'. The archive also houses many of Turing's letters, talks, photographs and unpublished papers, as well as memoirs and obituaries written about him.

Bletchley Park
Historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer

Turing Patterns
A Turing pattern tour exploring Turing's theoretical work, The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis

Article: Why is Google in love with Bletchley Park?
Google is helping to preserve a slice of computing history

2012 The Alan Turing Year
Throughout 2012, the centenary of Alan Turing's birth is being celebrated with a series of global events

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