This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts correspond roughly to the eight sections of my full biography Alan Turing : the enigma. There are no hyperlinks in the text. For links and for more images, go to the corresponding page of the Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook. Part 8 - Alan Turing 's Crisis turing.org.uk
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Alan Turing. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
Alan Turing (1912-1954) never described himself as a philosopher, but his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence is one of the most frequently cited in modern philosophical literature. plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/
If all Alan Turing had done was answer, in the negative, a vexing question in the arcane realm of mathematical logic, few nonspecialists today would have any reason to remember him. www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/turing.html