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This 3 page paper discusses the life and accomplishments of Alan Turing, who is generally thought of as the “father” of the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing (Hodges, 1995). His father had served in the Indian Civil Service, and that back ground meant that Alan "shared with his brother a childhood
rigidly determined by the demands of class and the exile in India of his parents" (Hodges, 1995). Until his father retired from India, Turing and his brother were fostered in
"various English homes where nothing encouraged expression, originality, or discovery" (Hodges, 1995). It appears that science became a sort of "extracurricular passion," though one that his parents did not encourage
(Hodges, 1995). His mother in particular was "terrified" that his odd interests would make it impossible for him to get into an English public school and in fact, the headmaster
of Sherborne School told her that if he was interested in science, he would be wasting his time in public school (Hodges, 1995). However, it appears that he did attend
Sherborne (Hodges, 1995). While he was there he met and was "powerfully attracted" to another student, Christopher Morcom, who was a year ahead of him (Hodges, 1995). Morcom, however, died
suddenly in 1930, and his death apparently spurred Turing to consider questions of the human mind, how it was "embodied in matter," and "whether accordingly it could be released from
matter by death" (Hodges, 1995). These reflections led him into concepts of 20th century physics, in particular, whether "quantum-mechanical theory affected the traditional problem of mind and matter" (Hodges, 1995).
Turing entered Kings College, Cambridge, in 1931 and found himself in a world in which "free-ranging thought" was encouraged (Hodges, 1995). In 1932, he read the work of von Neumann
on "the logical foundations of quantum mechanics," which changed the study of the mind and matter from an emotional one to a matter of "rigorous intellectual enquiry" (Hodges, 1995). At
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