The Mind Creative
After Sherborne, Turing enrolled at King's College (University of
Cambridge) in Cambridge, England, studying there from 1931
to 1934. In 1936, Turing delivered a paper, "On Computable
Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs problem," in
which he presented the notion of a universal machine (later called
the “Universal Turing Machine," and then the "Turing machine")
capable of computing anything that is computable. Over the next
two years, Turing studied mathematics and cryptology at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. After
receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938, he returned
to Cambridge, and took up a part-time position with the
Government Code and Cypher School, a British code-breaking
organization.
The first stored program based computer - Automatic
Computing Engine (ACE) - built on Alan Turing’s hypotheses
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