- "Alan Turing Rowing Crew" (Top Row, second from left), c. 1935, King's College
Turing attended King’s College in 1931 and found protection in the liberal ambiance the college provided as a young, gay man.
Alan Turing attended Princeton University in 1938 conceptualizing a universal computing machine with coded instructions stored in its memory, later known as the Turing Machine. His revolutionary PhD paper became one of the most famous theses written at Princeton.
"The idea that one might construct a universal machine capable of simulating any other machine was introduced by the mathematician Alan Mathison Turing in his revolutionary essay, On Computable Numbers (1936). He maintained that 'anything performed by a human computer [i.e., a human who worked with numbers] could be done by a machine,'" |