Cosy Science

The name Alan Turing is synonymous with Artificial intelligence, code-breaking and computer science. But as well as being a brilliant mathematician and engineer, he was also a philosopher who longed to recreate human intelligence. The tragic death of his first love inspired him to create thinking machines. Persecution for his later loves brought his work, and his life, to a tragic end. Turing's life. Learn how Turing's life shaped his work, and how his work shapes our lives - more now than ever, a century after his birth.