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Transcript: (cc) photo by Metro Centric on Flickr doodles For this reason his death, on 7 June 1954, at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, came as a general surprise. In hindsight it is obvious that Turing's unique status in Anglo-American secret communication work meant that there were pressures on him of which his contemporaries were unaware; there was certainly another ‘security’ conflict with government in 1953 (Hodges 1983, p. 483). Some commentators, e.g. Dawson (1985), have argued that assassination should not be ruled out. But he had spoken of suicide, and his death, which was by cyanide poisoning, was most likely by his own hand, contrived so as to allow those who wished to do so to believe it a result of his penchant for chemistry experiments. The symbolism of its dramatic element — a partly eaten apple — has continued to haunt the intellectual Eden from which Alan Turing was expelled. notes Budapest Pioneer in developing computer logic as we know it today. One of the first to approach the topic of artificial intelligence. San Francisco Notes Stockholm Turing seized on the concept of the machine.Turing's solution lay in defining what was soon to be named the Turing machine. With this he defined the concept of ‘the mechanical’ in terms of simple atomic operations. Our Project (cc) photo by jimmyharris on Flickr In 1948 he moved to Manchester University, where he partly fulfilled the expectations placed upon him to plan software for the pioneer computer development there, but still remained a free-ranging thinker. It was here that his famous 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” (Turing 1950b) was written. (cc) photo by Franco Folini on Flickr Double click to crop it if necessary Stuff Born 23 June 1912, London; Died 7 June 1954, Manchester England outlook From 1939 to 1945 Turing was almost totally engaged in the mastery of the German enciphering machine, Enigma, and other cryptological investigations at now-famous Bletchley Park, the British government's wartime communications headquarters. photo frame Smith's Prize, Cambridge University, 1936; Order of the British Empire (OBE), 1946; Fellow, Royal Society, 1951. Place your own picture behind this frame! (cc) photo by Metro Centric on Flickr details Assets map Important Details Turing