After the war, Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the first designs for a stored-program computer.

Jan 2, 2026 · It was in the course of his work on the Entscheidungsproblem that Turing invented the universal Turing machine, an abstract computing machine that encapsulates the …

Alan Turing’s Pilot ACE computer, completed in 1950, was one of the world’s first digital programmable computers.

May 23, 2025 · Though a complete version of the ACE never materialized, its concept has been used as a model by tech corporations worldwide for several years, influencing the design of …

Jun 1, 2025 · English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist who is considered to be the father of computer science. Developed the Turing Machine in 1936.

In 1936, while a fellow of King's College, Cambridge University, Alan Turing invents the principle of the modern computer. Turing described an abstract machine with the following components:

Computer engineers demonstrate the Ferranti Mark I to Alan Turing (standing) in January 1951.

Turing drew up the initial design for the Automatic Computing Engine in 1945. The design was approved by the National Physical Laboratory in 1946. Construction of the ACE proceeded …

Jun 23, 2022 · It took the genius of Turing to show that a very simple machine could in fact compute all that is computable. His hypothetical device is now known as a “Turing machine.”

Feb 14, 2024 · In 1936, Turing published his seminal paper “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs problem.” In this paper, he introduced the concept of the …