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Alan Turing as a young boy. (Photo by Getty Images)
23 June 1912 Born Alan Mathison Turing in Maida Vale, London, the second son of Julius and Sara Turing
October 1931 Turing takes up a mathematics scholarship at King’s College Cambridge, earning a first-class degree. In 1935 he is elected to a junior research fellowship
January 1937 A paper by Turing is published that is later recognised as laying the foundation of computer science
June 1938 At the age of 25, Turing receives his PhD from Princeton for his dissertation Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals
4 September 1939 Turing arrives at Bletchley Park to begin his wartime work on code and cipher systems. He goes on to lead the team in Hut 8 (left)
Some years ago, I came across
an account of the disastrous World War II raid on Dieppe written by a
British naval intelligence officer who viewed the raid from the deck of a
warship off the coast of France.
The intelligence report read
like a thriller, which should come as no surprise, as the naval intelligence
officer was Royal Navy Lt. Commander Ian Fleming,
who went on to write the James Bond thrillers.
The Dieppe Raid was the stuff
of thrillers, and Canadian historian David O’Keefe has written a fine
book about the failed operation called “One Day in August: Ian Fleming,
Some years ago, I came across
an account of the disastrous World War II raid on Dieppe written by a
British naval intelligence officer who viewed the raid from the deck of a
warship off the coast of France.
The intelligence report read
like a thriller, which should come as no surprise, as the naval intelligence
officer was Royal Navy Lt. Commander Ian Fleming,
who went on to write the James Bond thrillers.
The Dieppe Raid was the stuff
of thrillers, and Canadian historian David O’Keefe has written a fine
book about the failed operation called “One Day in August: Ian Fleming,