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- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)
- British mathematician, cryptographer, and one of the key inventors of the modern computer. After his profound contributions to helping win World War II, he was persecuted for his homosexuality by his own government, and driven to suicide. Maintained by Turing biographer Andrew Hodges: extensive resources and links, online versions of several long essays on Turing.
- Alan M. Turing
Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Andrew Hodges. - Alan Mathison Turing
Undergraduate biographical essay by John M. Kowalik. - Alan Turing
Biographical entry in the FOLDOC. - Alan Turing
Biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. - Alan Turing
Encyclopedia biography from Wikipedia. - Alan Turing Archive
Archive and historical records pertaining to the work of computing pioneer Alan Turing. - Alan Turing Papers
Collection record of Turings papers at Kings College, Cambridge. - Alan Turing: The Biography Project
Biography, bibliography and links. - The Church-Turing Thesis
Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia. - On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Turing's paper which discusses the halting problem in the context of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. HTML. - Turing Machine
Article on Turing Machines from the Stanford Encyclopedia. - Wired Archive: Alan Turing
Stories involving Turing. - Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers
Profile of the groundbreaking Cambridge mathematician. [BusinessWeek] (May 10, 2004)
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