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Alan Turing at 100

Alan Turing, born a century ago this year, is best known for his wartime code-breaking and for inventing the 'Turing machine' – the concept at the heart of every computer today. But his legacy extends much further: he founded the field of artificial intelligence, proposed a theory of biological pattern formation and speculated about the limits of computation in physics. In this collection of features and opinion pieces, Nature celebrates the mind that, in a handful of papers over a tragically short lifetime, shaped many of the hottest fields in science today.

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Features

Turing at 100: Legacy of a universal mind

Nature ( 23 February 2012 )
Computer modelling: Brain in a box

Henry Markram wants €1 billion to model the entire human brain. Sceptics don't think he should get it.

Nature ( 23 February 2012 )

Opinion

Turing at 100

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing. He deserves your attention.

Nature 482 ( 23 February 2012 )
The man behind the machine

Alan Turing is famous for many reasons. Andrew Hodges delves into why Turing's achievements took so long to be recognized.

Nature 482, 441 ( 23 February 2012 )
Turing centenary: The dawn of computing

Alan Turing's bridging of logic and machines laid the foundation for digital computers, says George Dyson.

Nature 482, 459-460 ( 23 February 2012 )
Turing centenary: Life's code script

Turing machines and cells have much in common, argues Sydney Brenner.

Nature 482, 461 ( 23 February 2012 )
Turing centenary: Is the brain a good model for machine intelligence?

To celebrate the centenary of the year of Alan Turing's birth, four scientists and entrepreneurs assess the divide between neuroscience and computing.

Nature 482, 462-463 ( 23 February 2012 )
Turing centenary: Pattern formation

We are only beginning to see the impact of Turing's influential work on morphogenesis, says John Reinitz.

Nature 482, 464 ( 23 February 2012 )
Turing centenary: The incomputable reality

The natural world's interconnectivity should inspire better models of the Universe, says Barry Cooper.

Nature 482, 465 ( 23 February 2012 )

Futures

Ghost in the machine

Computer love.

Nature 482, 562 ( 23 February 2012 )

Podcasts

Podcast Extra: Alan Turing

Alan Turing's biographer, Andrew Hodges, tells us about Turing's famous 1936 paper on computable numbers, his contribution to cracking the German Enigma ciphers, and his thoughts on machine intelligence.

Nature ( 23 February 2012 )

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Alan Turing at 100

Features

Turing at 100: Legacy of a universal mind

Computer modelling: Brain in a box

Opinion

Turing at 100

The man behind the machine

Turing centenary: The dawn of computing

Turing centenary: Life's code script

Turing centenary: Is the brain a good model for machine intelligence?

Turing centenary: Pattern formation

Turing centenary: The incomputable reality

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Ghost in the machine

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