Alan Turing By robertseg Jun 23, 1912 Born 1931 Turing enters King's College, Cambridge 1936 Publishes 'On Computable Numbers', where he first put forth The Turing Machine 1936 Turing collaborates with Alonzo Church at Princeton 1939 WWII Breaks Out 1939 Turing designs the first 'Bombe' prototype, which is then improved upon with the help of Gordon Welchman Sep 4, 1939 Turing arrives at Bletchley Park 1944 Turing prototypes Delilah, a system capable of encrypting spoken telephone conversation 1946 Turing designs the Automatic Computing Engine, but leaves the National Physical Library before it can be built. 1950 Turing first describes the 'Imitation Game', later known as the Turing Test, an important concept in the field of AI 1952 Alan is convicted of 'gross indecency' Jun 7, 1954 Turing dies from cyanide poisoning, self-inflicted according to official inquest 2013 Alan Turing is granted a Royal Pardon for his indecency conviction 2022 Data Scientist Max Woolf somewhat dubiously claims ChatGPT has become the first machine to pass the Turing Test
