Alan Turing was born on 23 June, 1912 in Maida Vale, London, England. They died on 7 June, 1954. They lived to the age of 41. During their life, they had lived in Maida Vale, London, England, Sherborne, Dorset, England, Cambridge, England, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, Bletchley Park, England, and Manchester, England. Their longest period of living in one place was in Maida Vale, London, England (14 years). They studied at St Michael's, Sherborne School, King's College, University of Cambridge, and Princeton University. They had worked for Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park and Computing Laboratory at the University of Manchester. Their most recent job was at Computing Laboratory at the University of Manchester. They had had a relationship with Joan Clarke.
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Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science.
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Location: 2 Warrington Crescent
Erected: 2017
Colour: Multicoloured
Alan Turing Code Breaker & Pioneer of Computer Science Love Lived Here 1912-1954