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Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954.
Alan M. Turing addition to papers and correspondence, circa 1918-1974.
Includes biographical and personal material all received from the estate of Mrs Sarah Turing and many items bear annotations and corrections by her. Several refer to the preparation and publication of her biography of her son, which was published by Heffer of Cambridge in 1959, and include biographical information and recollections. There is material on morphogenesis from N.E. Hoskin which represents a substantial addition to the documentation of Turing's work and thinking on this topic, left uncompleted at his death. There are photocopied letters and calculations exchanged by Turing and I. J. Good made available by Good, and some original letters by Turing, most of them addressed to P. Hall, received from A. Hodges, author of the biography 'Alan Turing: The Enigma.'
Turing read mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of King's in 1935. He began research in mathematical logic which led to his well-known work on computable numbers and the 'Turing Machine.' He spent two years at Princeton University, 1936-1938, working with A. Church, and the war years at Bletchley Park, at the Code and Cypher School, 1939-1945, and was awarded the OBE for his work on 'Enigma' and other codes. At the end of the war he declined a Cambridge University Lectureship and joined the group that was being formed at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington for the design, construction and use of a large automatic computing machine. In his three years at the NPL, 1945-1948, he made the first design of the ACE computer and did much of the pioneering work in the design of sub-routines. In 1948 he was appointed Reader in Mathematics at Manchester University where work was beginning on the construction of a large computer by F. C. Williams and T. Kilburn. Towards the end of his life Turing was increasingly interested in morphogenesis. He was elected FRS in 1951.
Computer science.
Morphogenesis.
Drafts (documents). ftamc aat
Hall, Philip.
Hoskin, N. E.
Turing, Sara -- Estate.
AIP-ICOS
Turing Trust.
King's College. Modern Archive Centre. King's College Library. Cambridge, UK
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