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Alan Mathison Turing Biography and Timeline โ€” Page 4

Follow Alan Mathison Turing through 122 dated historical records for Great Britain.

Alan Mathison Turing, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

122Distinct records
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1954โ€“1966Years on this page

1954

Birth of Alan Mathison Turing

Science / Technology

Death of Alan Mathison Turing, suicide by cyanide poisoning

1966

Turing Award

Science / Technology

Since 1966, the Turing Award has been given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for technical or theoretical contributions to the computing community, widely considered to be the computing worlds highest honour, equivalent to the Nobel Prize

Records, sources and methodology

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