http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html June 23, 2012 is the Centenary of Alan Turing’s birth. Turing's achievements are of great importance to the modern world. Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science, bringing together the concept of algorithm and computation. During his relatively brief life, Turing had a unique impact on the history of computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability. This site is an attempt to compile a visual memory of Alan Turing by collecting his publicly available pictures. Each picture is accompanied by a brief comment pertaining to his legacy or a moment in his life. http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#0 84493457-d91e-4dc0-b961-2dd11f966ed7 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/jftamt2/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/jftamt2/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">23 June 1912 - Alan M. Turing was born in London, UK.  (Pictured here at age 5 with elder brother John at Hastings).</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#1 994d55f2-f1a7-47b7-b2ac-2f5ccfac047b http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/sherborne/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/sherborne/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1926 - Turing at Sherborne, Dorset, England. He and his brother were in the care of a retired Colonel.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#2 e03c1ff5-9c5e-4780-8cca-d2d525830876 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/DSC05248/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/DSC05248/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1931 to 1935 - Attended King's College, to study math. The computer room is now named after him. (pic. by H. Zenil)</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#3 b01d9130-8e45-405d-bbfc-ad4822cd5363 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/alan-turing-2/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/alan-turing-2/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1937 - As an undergraduate comes up with the idea of a computing machine and defines universal computation.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#4 a26100c0-34de-4a5e-af39-b33678c8ee79 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/alan_turing2/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/alan_turing2/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Proves the halting problem and creates the field of computability. <br/>(copyright Beryl Turing)</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#5 8b20ceb0-2e2f-4b1a-9d2f-a2efed747072 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Turing_flat/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Turing_flat/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1939 to 1940 - Two cottages in the stable yard at Bletchley Park where he worked.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#6 faeeada8-5483-4808-bb41-1ce20a57d3f4 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/cope1/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/cope1/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">During WWII he was a leading cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park, his work pivotal to breaking the Nazi’s Enigma code.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#7 21dc3f5f-ba5a-46a2-b5c4-cb72e8dd59aa http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/p13_turing_breakout/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/p13_turing_breakout/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1946 - Turing on the bus steps with members of the Walton Athletic Club, a club based in Walton, Surrey, UK.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#8 cce05a99-f45a-4cc0-8c26-31bb4ab60d9e http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/AlanTuring1946/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/AlanTuring1946/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1946 - He ran here for the National Physical Lab. Placed 2nd in a 3 mile race, with a great timing.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#9 91482884-55ef-4652-9c35-3c60f8f6a1c2 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/1954_turing_large/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/1954_turing_large/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1950 - Introduced the idea of a test for artificial intelligence, today called the Turing Test.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#10 6a9223fe-2224-4d58-b3cf-c5e9bb332ea0 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/Alan_Turing_at_the_Ratio_Club/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/Alan_Turing_at_the_Ratio_Club/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1951 - At the Ratio Club, where psychologists, physiologists, mathematicians and engineers met to discuss cybernetics.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#11 46835081-841e-4c64-954e-59d85f60258d http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/4C303A2E-1321-B0BE-6867D36A20E71B14.KLIKFOTO/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/4C303A2E-1321-B0BE-6867D36A20E71B14.KLIKFOTO/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1951 - Universal Electronic Computer, Manchester University. Standing at right: Alan Turing.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#12 dc117f82-118d-4a76-b8d4-7f29aa5d7934 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/turingmedx/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/turingmedx/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1951 - Election to a Fellowship of the Royal Society. He created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer: ACE.<br/></p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#13 fd707692-361f-4706-bdd1-fcea151e6e24 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/flower1/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/flower1/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Turing's meticulously hand-drawn a sunflower. He was interested in the origin of biological form (morphogenesis). </p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#14 4c641f72-8b5e-452e-b705-c121b0c73a92 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/TyringCBerylTuring/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/TyringCBerylTuring/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1952 - The UK Gov. chemically castrated him, having found him “guilty” of homosexuality. (copyright Beryl Turing)</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#15 77f3e38c-4ea7-4f83-b9c6-3dbb4bb246f0 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/alan_turing5/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/alan_turing5/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1954 - His death before his 42nd birthday was an apparent suicide. An apple placed with cyanide was found by his body.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#16 3c541ad4-000f-487e-8ef3-7f2be64d325f http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Turing_Plaque/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Turing_Plaque/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1998 - Official English Heritage blue plaque on the Colonnade Hotel, London W9, his birthplace.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#17 1a994599-7bf0-4c54-ac11-d9e6c9aa2444 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/_330376_alanturingstamp150/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/_330376_alanturingstamp150/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">1999 - Turing is portrayed as the thinking machine on the Great Inventors postage stamp, designed by Sir E. Paolozzi.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#18 bd84666d-41ae-4538-b144-a3a871f13f1e http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/Turing/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/Turing/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">2000 - A postage stamp issued by St Vincent, West Indies.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#19 899b8186-0838-41e2-aae7-d7f8c9c9e189 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Alan_Turing_Memorial_Closer/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Alan_Turing_Memorial_Closer/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">2001 - Alan Turing memorial in Sackville Park, Manchester by Glyn Hughes.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#20 2defff18-3640-481d-bd44-cb672628d772 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/usstatue/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/usstatue/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">2004 - Alan Turing statue, University of Surrey (picture by Andrew Hodges)</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#21 ec8d4b1b-d602-42b6-b6ae-09db49705e42 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Alan_Turing_Building_1/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Alan_Turing_Building_1/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">2007- the Mathematics department of Manchester University moved to its new Alan Turing Building.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#22 20db38d3-7b01-4f16-9d06-25211111c6d5 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/alan-turing/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/alan-turing/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">2007- Statue by Stephen Kettle unveiled at Bletchley Park.</p></div></div> http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index.html#23 b0f84be5-e640-45a2-8a02-26d0c95dffb8 http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Sackville_Park_Turing_plaque/thumb.jpg http://www.visualturing.org/Visual_Turing/index_files/Media/File-Sackville_Park_Turing_plaque/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_182_74"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">2009 - “We’re sorry: you deserved so much better” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s official public apology.</p></div></div>