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unusual facts about Turing



Alan Turing Memorial

The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954' and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it would appear if encoded by an Enigma machine; 'IEKYF RQMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'.

Anjali Gopalan

In 29 July 2012, Anjali Gopalan inaugurated Alan Turing Rainbow festival and flag offed the Asia's first Genderqueer pride parade as a part of Turing Rainbow festival organised by Gopi Shankar of Srishti Madurai this was the first Gay pride parade attended by Anjali.

Colossus computer

Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon (1999) also contains a fictional treatment of the historical role played by Turing and Bletchley Park.

Context-sensitive language

The class LINSPACE (or DSPACE(O(n))) is defined the same, except using a deterministic Turing machine.

Darwin machine

A Darwin machine (a 1987 coinage by William H. Calvin, by analogy to a Turing machine) is a machine that, like a Turing machine, involves an iteration process that yields a high-quality result, but, whereas a Turing machine uses logic, the Darwin machine uses rounds of variation, selection, and inheritance.

Eduardo D. Sontag

In theory of computation, he proved the first results on computational complexity in nonlinear controllability, and introduced together with his student Hava Siegelmann a new approach to analog computation and super-Turing computing.

Foveran

The cryptographer and computing pioneer Alan Turing (1912–1954) was uncle to the present Baronet, Sir John Dermot Turing.

Good–Turing frequency estimation

Good–Turing frequency estimation was developed by Alan Turing and his assistant I. J. Good as part of their efforts at Bletchley Park to crack German ciphers for the Enigma machine during World War II.

Hidrogenesse

In May 2012 they released a tribute album to Alan Turing, Un dígito binario dudoso. Recital para Alan Turing ("A doubtful digital bit. Recital for Alan Turing"), a recital that debuted in their opening shows for The Magnetic Fields 2012 Spanish tour.

Hypercomputation

The term "super-Turing computation" appeared in a 1995 Science paper by Hava Siegelmann.

John Etchemendy

He has also developed numerous pieces of instructional software, including Turing's World, Tarski's World, Fitch, and Hyperproof, software that allows computers to support the reasoning process.

M. H. Benders

In Februar 2013 Benders, as a situationist artwork, put a Bill Knott poem into the Turing National Poetry contest.

Occam's razor

Marcus Hutter has used this consistency to define a "natural" Turing machine of small size as the proper basis for excluding arbitrarily complex instruction sets in the formulation of razors.

Pilot ACE

After Turing left NPL (in part because he was disillusioned by the lack of progress on building the ACE), James H. Wilkinson took over the project and Harry Huskey helped with the design.

Quantum Turing machine

Iriyama, Ohya, and Volovich have developed a model of a Linear Quantum Turing Machine (LQTM).

Quantum Turing machines can be related to classical and probabilistic Turing machines in a framework based on transition matrices, shown by Lance Fortnow.

S/SL programming language

S/SL has been used to implement production commercial compilers for languages such as PL/I, Euclid, Turing, Ada, and COBOL, as well as interpreters, command processors, and domain specific languages of many kinds.

Subject matter

Subject matter expert Turing test, a variation of the Turing test where a computer system attempts to replicate an expert in a given field

The Curse of Fenric

(The "ULTIMA machine" of the story is based on the real Enigma machine.) In an interview for the DVD release of this story, Briggs said that since at that time it was not considered appropriate to depict a character's struggle with homosexuality in a family programme, he transformed Turing's frustration at being unable to express his true sexual identity into Judson's frustration at being crippled.

Thor Meets Captain America

The story follows Captain Chris Turing, who is part of the team which is going to attack Valhalla and starts out with them traveling to their attack destination in a group of submarines hoping that what remained of the United States Surface Navy would be able to distract the Nazi and Norse pantheon forces.

Turing baronets

The Turing family descends from Sir William Turing, a supporter of David II (1329–1371).

Turing equivalence

Turing completeness, having computational power equivalent to a universal Turing machine

Turing switch

Both are named in honor of the English logician Alan Turing, albeit the research in Turing switches is not based on Turing's research.

Universal Turing machine

Von Neumann universal constructor – an attempt to build a self-replicating Turing machine

Davis makes a persuasive argument that Turing's conception of what is now known as "the stored-program computer", of placing the "action table"—the instructions for the machine—in the same "memory" as the input data, strongly influenced John von Neumann's conception of the first American discrete-symbol (as opposed to analog) computer—the EDVAC.

University of Toronto Department of Computer Science

Also in 1983, Turing programming language was developed by Ric Holt and Jim Cordy, which it received many rewards and being used widely at the time.

Whitworth Gardens

The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954', and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it would appear if encoded by an Enigma machine: 'IEKYF ROMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'.


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