Alan Mathison. 1912–54, English mathematician, who was responsible for formal description of abstract automata, and speculation on computer imitation of humans: a leader of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II; he committed suicide after being prosecuted for homosexuality but was posthumously pardoned in 2013
Turing in American English
(ˈtʊrɪŋ; ˈtjʊrɪŋ)
Alan Mathison (ˈmæθɪsən) 1912-54; Brit. mathematician: pioneer in computer theory
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disfeature
to mar the features or appearance of; deface
disnature
to (cause to) be in an unnatural condition
encincture
a cincture
renature
to restore to an original state
Turing test
a test of a computer's ability to think , requiring that the covert substitution of the computer for one of the participants in a keyboard and screen dialogue should be undetectable by the remaining human participant
Turing machine
a hypothetical universal computing machine able to modify its original instructions by reading , erasing , or writing a new symbol on a moving tape of fixed length that acts as its program . The concept was instrumental in the early development of computer systems