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* [[Alan Turing|Turing, Alan]] (1912-1954) - theory of computability

[[Alan Turing]], a Cambridge mathematician known at Bletchley as "prof" was one of the ke

...n the form of the [[Church-Turing Thesis]] (due to [[Alonzo Church]] and [[Alan Turing]]). This theorem proved that no systematic method exists, ''or can ever ex

...ry and Intelligence" More info is at: [http://www.turing.org.uk/turing The Alan Turing Home Page]

* [[Alan Turing]]

...ions for the theory of machine computation was laid down by Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and others in the 1930s. And when practical computing machines became avai

...ields, such as by the mathematicians [[Paul Erdős]], [[Horace Lamb]] and [[Alan Turing]], the author [[Anthony Burgess]], philosophers [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] and * £56 m [[Alan Turing Building]]: housing Mathematics, the Photon Sciences Institute and the [[Jo

...olution, pioneered by brilliant twentieth-century mathematicians such as [[Alan Turing]] (among many others), enabled the invention of electronic computers. And a

...l achievements are the undecidability of the [[Entscheidungsproblem]] by [[Alan Turing]], and his presentation of the [[Church-Turing thesis]]. Today recursion t Logic cut to the heart of computer science as it emerged as a discipline: [[Alan Turing]]'s work on the [[Entscheidungsproblem]] followed from [[Kurt Gödel]]'s wo

[[Image:Turing memorial.jpg|left|200px|Memorial to Alan Turing]] Security aspects have led to tragedies, such as that of [[Alan Turing]],<ref>{{citation

...may not be computable at all; in fact, this can be proven. For instance, [[Alan Turing|Turing]] showed in 1936 that there is no algorithm for deciding in finite t

Much work on the theory of computation was done in the 1930s. [[Alan Turing]] and [[Alonzo Church]] both came up with new techniques to solve the [[hal

...esearch. The first was the creation of the [[computer]] and the ideas of [[Alan Turing]]. People quickly saw the analogy between computers and the [[human]] [[bra

...For example, [[Turing Machine]] cites the classic TM paper, and perhaps [[Alan Turing]] should as well, but the dozens of other places where it is relevant shoul

1936 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Alan Turing]]'s ''On Computable Numbers''[http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/ieg/e-l

*[[Alan Turing]] and [[Tommy Flowers]], inventors of the modern computer and its associate ...omson]], [[Charles Babbage]], [[Stephen Hawking]], [[Christopher Wren]], [[Alan Turing]], [[Francis Crick]], [[Joseph Lister]], [[Tim Berners-Lee]], [[Andrew Wile