Contours 2016-17
Stories from the School of Mathematics. Undergraduate students interview researchers to find out what the life of a mathematician is like.
Stories from the School of Mathematics. Undergraduate students interview researchers to find out what the life of a mathematician is like.
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The Alan Turing Institute<br />
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Why Alan Turing?<br />
There is no doubt that Alan Turing is<br />
a giant in the world of computer and<br />
data science. During the Second<br />
World War, Turing played a pivotal<br />
role in decoding intercepted German<br />
messages – work which is thought to<br />
have shortened the length of the war<br />
by two to four years. But Turing was<br />
also a pioneer in computer science,<br />
taking steps towards artificial intelligence<br />
many years before it became a<br />
mainstream idea. It was partly thanks<br />
to his ability to combine techniques<br />
from mathematics, computing and<br />
statistics that Turing was so successful,<br />
and so he truly represents the<br />
spirit of modern data science research.<br />
Naming the institute after<br />
Alan Turing seeks to to give people a<br />
visionary understanding of its aims.<br />
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