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Do you know Alan Turing's history in Manchester?
During the Second World War, the mathematician was among the first to propose a machine resembling a modern computer. When he moved to Manchester in 1948, he encountered a real computer as he had imagined.
The ‘Manchester Baby’ was the world’s first stored‑program computer. Today, you can see this for free at the @ScienceandIndustryMuseum.
It was in Manchester that he published his 1950 article on artificial intelligence, proposing an imitation game to see if a computer could fool a person into thinking it was human. This became famously known as the 'Turing Test'.
And it was here in 1952 that Turing was criminally convicted under the anti-gay laws of the time for having a relationship with Arnold Murray. He was sentenced to probation with chemical castration.
He continued to work, but two years later, he was found dead at home. Today, he is commemorated with a statue on a park bench in Sackville Gardens just off Canal Street.
#history #manchester #PrideMonth
Do you know Alan Turing's history in Manchester?
During the Second World War, the mathematician was among the first to propose a machine resembling a modern computer. When he moved to Manchester in 1948, he encountered a real computer as he had imagined.
The ‘Manchester Baby’ was the world’s first stored‑program computer. Today, you can see this for free at the @ScienceandIndustryMuseum.
It was in Manchester that he published his 1950 article on artificial intelligence, proposing an imitation game to see if a computer could fool a person into thinking it was human. This became famously known as the 'Turing Test'.
And it was here in 1952 that Turing was criminally convicted under the anti-gay laws of the time for having a relationship with Arnold Murray. He was sentenced to probation with chemical castration.
He continued to work, but two years later, he was found dead at home. Today, he is commemorated with a statue on a park bench in Sackville Gardens just off Canal Street.
#history #manchester #PrideMonth
